Helping a Grandparent Who Is Grieving by Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D. “When a grandchild dies, grandparents grieve twice. They mourn the loss...

Sibling grief

Grief during the Holiday

Fathers be good to your daughters, daughters will love like you do. Girls become lovers, who turn into mothers, so mothers be good to...

I am the mother of a child who died. And that makes Mother's Day very hard. Recently I was talking to a mother whose child had just died....

During these uncertain times it is even harder with both Mother’s Day and Father’s Day coming. These holidays can be especially...

Grief and Thanksgiving

Grief and gratitude

You’re sitting at your desk at work and suddenly realize you have been staring at the wall, lost in thought or memories or pain, for the...

As a bereaved mother who has, as well, three healthy children, I am here to issue forth a dispatch from the department of brutal truth:...

Here we are (again), one day after another school shooting, debating gun laws, pointing fingers and blaming one side over the other. All...

1). Love never dies. There will never come a day, hour, minute or second I stop loving or thinking about my son. Just as parents of...

I am compelled to respond to the recent publicity about Debbie Reynold’s death following the sudden loss of her daughter Carrie Fisher...

I remember sitting in a bereaved parents meeting the first year after my son died. The topic was “Signs from our Children.” I sat in...

After you lose your child, there is an emptiness you feel inside. You may feel as if there is a hole in your heart that will remain...