When a child experiences the death of someone close to them, adults often feel at a loss as to how to help. They want to do something, but fear saying or doing it wrong. Children’s books can be an ...

Meghan Riordan Jarvis, who specializes in grief and loss, shares her favorite books for different kinds of grief, for readers of all ages I grew up in a house filled with books and book-lovers. My ...

Joan Didion, author of "The Year of Magical Thinking," speaks at the College of Marin in Kentfield, California in February, 1977. Grief is a profound and complicated experience. The process of grief ...

When children lose anyone to death, it’s important to help them process their grief. Whether it’s a beloved family member (mom, dad, grandparent), friend, or pet, read these picture books about grief ...

ALL RIGHT, CYNTHIA, THANK YOU. IN THIS MORNING’S MARYLAND, PEACE OF MIND TURNING LOSS INTO LESSONS, FORMER BALTIMORE RESIDENT EILEEN ROBERTSON. HAMRE HAS A NEW MEMOIR OUT DETAILING THE DEATH OF HER ...

SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — Grief, defined by Merriam Webster as the “deep and poignant distress caused by or as if by bereavement,” is something no two people experience in the same way but everyone ...

Grief is the river that looks the same to all until you fall into it. Then each person's loss and mourning — for someone they loved, for a miscarriage, for their own shattered health or career — is ...

Ten lessons from Whitney Goodman’s 'Toxic Positivity' on why forced optimism fails and how honesty, boundaries and validation ...

Whether lighting the twinkling lights of an evergreen tree, or the candles of a kinara or menorah, “light” is an important symbol of faith. But this December, many who observe Chanukah—the Festival of ...

That might seem like a strange question, but is it really? A grief support group is to help someone who is grieving. True. But there are many different kinds of grief groups, such as for death, ...

Grief is isolating, especially when you’ve lost someone you relied on for support. Imagine you’ve suffered a particularly salient loss, like the death of your beloved father. Even though it can be a ...