Best Grief Articles

Much is known about what exacerbates the grief process and prolongs, in some instances intensifies, pain and suffering. Here are six key understandings about what not to do when grieving and therefore save the large amount of emotional energy they suck up.

Your beliefs about death, your loved one, and the world around you explain what grief is like for you and only you right now. Everything you perceive about the present state of your grief and loss is filtered through what you believe to be true. Here are three limiting beliefs frequently embraced by the mourner?often hidden in silence?and causing unnecessary suffering, with an antidote for each.

Two weeks shy of the fifth-month anniversary of my husband's death, I can say, without the slightest hesitation or hint of exaggeration that grieving sucks. Ugly word? Yes. Ugly feeling? Absolutely! Grieving is neither gentle nor quiet; it is bottomless loneliness, anger and depression, until finally, a year or two down the road, I will be at peace with my loss -- or so the experts say. But for now, there's no way around my grief; I can't hide from it (for long anyway) or run away from it.

So many of us refuse to let go of past hurts. We hold grudges and dream of revenge. Why don't we understand that we are only doing ourselves great harm?

Here are five ways you can assure yourself that your grief work will not be prolonged and you can eventually accept the death of your loved one on an emotional level. Much of this is internal work and will call on you to strengthen your inner life.

Love doesn?t die when a loved one is no longer physically present. He or she lives on within our hearts and memories?and many believe?in spirit. Establishing a new relationship with the deceased is one of the tasks of grieving. Here is how you can cement that new relationship.

Many people are taught to keep their grief to themselves. Silent grief tends to perpetuate many myths and falsehoods that already exist. Here are 10 things you should know about grief that will cut through some of the cultural misrepresentations that often cause unnecessary suffering.

At various times, loneliness is the scourge of everyone from the young, old, incarcerated and homeless to children, shut-ins, and to the rich and the poor. Mourners are especially prone to its damaging effects. Here are nine ways to confront your loneliness if you are mourning, and change your perception of it.

It has always been tradition to call upon the neighborhood funeral parlor, cemetery or monument dealer when a loved-one passes. But, due to the internet, that traditional is starting to change.

Grief and Worry: We all know of individuals who were so grief stricken at the death of a loved one they also died a short time later. Just a year ago,I experienced such a situation. Two wealthy,spinster neighbors were inseparable.