Grief is the normal and natural emotional response to loss, but most of the information we’ve learned about dealing with loss is intellectual.

The holiday season is the biggest stimulus to provoke memories and feelings about important people in our lives who have died or who are no longer present at our holiday celebrations and rituals because of divorce or other estrangements. In the interest of helping both grieving people and the friends and family near them…

President Ronald Reagan established October as National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness month in 1988. At the time he said, “When a child loses his parent, they are called an orphan. When a spouse loses her or his partner, they are called a widow or widower. When parents lose their child,

The majority of us never give any thought to how to deal with an emotional loss, until we find ourselves overwhelmed with the pain of grief. It is at that point that we discover how very few tools we have to deal with that pain, and that most of them do not really work!