When a child experiences the death of someone close to them, adults often feel at a loss as to how to help. They want to do something, but fear saying or doing it wrong. Children’s books can be an ...

A decade later, she spoke to me about her grief in metaphors, as something ongoing rather than completed, a process that had shifted shape over time but had not ended. Ella’s experience is not unusual ...

As lights go up and holiday music follows us into every store, grief has a way of slipping into the season uninvited. Someone mentioned to me recently that the "five stages of grief" have been ...

“Grief”—yeah, we all seize up a little when we hear that word. No matter who you are, at some point in your life you’ve experienced the heartache and dread of tragedy, whether from a break-up, a job ...