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Mary Plouffe, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist who had a professional sense of how children understand death. This sense became more persona...
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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...
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...
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 ...
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...
In 2000 Doreen Wiggins, MD began having vivid dreams that her husband was going to die. These dreams, combined with a session with an intuit...
For Camila, death came barreling into her world with zero warning. When she was 21 her world shifted on its axis on an average morning in Se...
November is National Children's Grief Awareness Month and as part of the effort to raise awareness about children's grief, the National Alli...
On a random Monday morning in the Bay Area of California, Beth Duckles realized too late that she was in the wrong lane of the highway. This...
What does transformation mean and how does it connect (or not) to grief? How can people make their way into everything that comes with this ...
In 1955 Jack was ten and living with his mother, who was raising him alone. She and Jack’s father adopted him when he was a tiny infant, whi...
Halfway through her junior year of high school, Lily's father died suddenly of a heart attack. As she made her way into this new landscape o...
