For those who are grieving, the holidays can be among the hardest times of the year, especially when facing the first holiday without a cherished family member. Grief is an incredibly powerful thing ...

Sudden surges of anguish can accompany intense mourning. That’s not unusual, experts say, and sometimes even helpful.

In a 2017 study of 771 bereaved that were 55 or older, around 25% of participants still experienced “persistent” grief after ...

In my last two posts, I have written about death and ways in which you can deal with it using the skills and the attitudes of resilience. We discussed the importance of not avoiding your feelings and ...

Grief isn't always tied to a grave. Sometimes, the people we mourn are still walking this earth, breathing the same air as us, yet unreachable—thanks to the tangled webs of time, circumstance, or ...

According to Lockett, more Black families are honoring loved ones through cremation or celebration-of-life ceremonies rather ...

Christina Perri shared last November that her daughter, whom she and husband Paul Costabile were expecting, had been "born silent" Christina Perri continues to share her grieving process. On Friday, ...

Western society wants you to be done with your grief and mourning posthaste. Get in, get out, and move on with your life. Those around you might give you a year, tops, before assuming you’ve made your ...

The grief that follows a tragedy can make any situation unpredictable, and that includes Christmas. So what do you do when a ...

Lisa Rinna's mom, Lois, died in November at 93 Lisa Rinna will soon have to relive one of the hardest moments in her life on national television. The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star opened up ...

With the COVID-19 pandemic still at large globally, and with the U.S. recently passing the one million "grave-marker-milestone" for COVID-19 related deaths, we are just now starting to see and feel ...

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