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In 2018 The Dougy Center was selected as one of a handful of children’s bereavement programs to partner with StoryCorps and the New York Lif...
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Who Died? was created by Aimee Craig to give voice to the memories of those we carry with us. Each episode is about one person's life and de...
What is it about dark humor and why are we particularly drawn to it when wrestling with painful life events? Laughter, especially the kind t...
In 2017, pop singer-songwriter Neil Davis, was about to release his second album when his father died suddenly of cardiac arrest. In that mo...
Mary Plouffe, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist who had a professional sense of how children understand death. This sense became more persona...
John and Melissa met back in the 90’s and dated for a few years before getting married. For John, this was a relationship like none other. M...
In the summer of 2016, Marie and Jonathan were newly married and living in Brooklyn, NYC. One day in August, Marie flew back from a trip, ex...
There’s nothing like grief to take us completely out of the moment. We get pulled into the past where we try to remember everything we can w...
In 1994, The Dougy Center had been around for just over a decade. It was also the year Hope Edelman published her groundbreaking book, Mothe...
Judith Finneren's husband Ralph, or Ralphie as she liked to call him, was hit and killed while riding his bike in the summer of 2011. Even w...
Sweaters, shoes, a favorite coffee mug, the pen always angled a certain way - items, big and small, create the landscapes left behind when s...
When someone dies, many of us expect to cry and feel frustrated, but we aren’t as prepared for intense fear and worry. Anxiety can catch us ...
When someone dies, many of the people left behind seek out formal sources of help like a therapist or traditional support group. What happen...
The list of things that are hard to do when you’re grieving is long - eating, sleeping, focusing, surface-level chit-chat, remembering where...
We hear about how powerful and important it can be to keep memories and connection alive with the people we are grieving, but how do we actu...