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What happens when you put your grief on hold? In the summer of 2016, Channing Frye was riding high. After over a decade in the NBA, his team...
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Dr. Donna Schuurman is back - this time talking about the dangers of pathologizing grief. While the term "complicated grief" has been used i...
What does it mean to be grief-informed? In 2020, Dr. Donna Schuurman, EdD, FT, and Dr. Monique Mitchell, PhD, FT, authored the paper, "Becom...
What started out as an average winter morning ended up being one that would change everything in Melissa Pierce's life. She went to wake up ...
It's our fifth annual holidays & grief episode! This time of year can be grueling for anyone, but particularly for those who are grieving. S...
When Meghan Riordan Jarvis's mother died suddenly, just two years after her father died of cancer, she watched herself grieving from two per...
Bridget was in high school when her dad died of a heart attack in 2020. Their relationship was complicated. She loved the way her more creat...
En el centro de la flor coloca una foto, haz un dibujo o escribe el nombre de la persona que murió. En cada uno de los pétalos de la flor, e...
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Katie Cosgrove experienced the death of someone close to her every year between the ages of 15 and 21. The first was her father, who died of...
Lionel Irving is the founder of Love is Stronger, an organization in Portland, OR dedicated to supporting gang-impacted families and communi...
What does it mean to be a cultural kinkeeper and how does that idea relate to grief? These are two of the questions we explore with Anika Ch...
As more opportunities for non-traditional grief support arise, it's no surprise that many of them are happening in historically marginalized...
Pierce Freelon is a GRAMMY® nominated musician, author, and educator. He is also a son, a father, a husband, and an astute observer of life ...
When Kelly S. Thompson and her older sister Meghan were children, they were close. Meghan was Kelly’s protector and constant as they moved a...
