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"Are we going to be okay?" This was one of the first questions Amy Choi & Rebecca Lehrer, co-founders of The Mash-Up Americans, posed in the...
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Many of us end up working in the grief world because of our personal experiences. We want to give others what we most needed. This is especi...
Día de Los Muertos, or “Day of the Dead,” is a two-day holiday to remember family members and friends who have died. Día de Los Muertos has ...
In collaboration with New Avenues for Youth, a nonprofit dedicated to the prevention and intervention of youth homelessness, this resource f...
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Adam Stevens, RDT, (he/they), knows grief. He grew up in a family of five. A family that is now a family of one. Adam brings this deep knowi...
Valenca Valenzuela, MSW, was born on Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) which seems fitting for someone who grew up to hold space for peop...
As humans, we have a pervasive desire to compartmentalize. To box up messy thoughts and emotions and “just get on with it already.” For Mari...
Lingering. Shivering. Simmering. Splintering. These are the words DJ Arsene Versailles wrote to describe grief after his mother, Florcie Yv...
In 2016, when they were in their late twenties, Janine Kwoh's partner died. Nap's death launched her into a new world of grief. Janine was t...
TJ Jackson had just gotten his driver's license as a teenager when his mother, Dee Dee Jackson, was murdered. Almost three decades later, TJ...
When our favorite person dies, our entire world gets up-ended. That person was often the planet in our galaxy that all the other planets and...
This is the second episode in our three-part Grief & Money series. Jessica was in her early twenties when she became a full-time caregiver f...
While will all experience some type of grief before we die, the prevalence of loss and how the world responds to our grief are shaped by rac...
Nnenna Freelon's beloved husband Phil died in July of 2019. Six months later her sister, Dr. Debbie Pierce, also died. Then, COVID hit the U...
Oceana Saywer is a death doula who supports people at the end of life. She came to this work through being with her father during his last d...