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The Grief Coaster: Understanding stress in grief
Stress is a given, whether it’s experienced in response to major life events or minor everyday occurrences. When life is going okay, your stress ebbs and flows. It’s kind of like one of those little...
View ArticleWarning: Grief Side-Effects May Include Building Emotional Walls
We’ve been a little quiet on WYG this week, but hopefully you have been keeping up over on photogrief, where we posted our posted our March challenge! In that post we challenged you to post your...
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“I should have known…”: Understanding Hindsight Bias in Grief
People have a natural tendency to sift through the ashes of tragedy in search of explanations. To quote Holocaust survivor and psychiatrist Viktor E. Frankl, “Man’s main concern is not to gain pleasure...
View ArticleGrieving Someone You Didn’t Like (because it happens)
Let’s be honest, sometimes people die who you…well…hated. That sounds really harsh, but sometimes it’s true. Or even if you didn’t hate the person, maybe you really didn’t like them…or you had a...
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Coping with the Conflicting Emotions of Grief
How are you feeling today? Yes…you. It’s a simple question. You’re asked a version of it every day. You know how to respond. Keep it simple. Choose a one to three word answer. Bonus points if you...
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Eight Step Plan for Mastering Grief (and other important nuances)
William Shakespeare once said, “Well, everyone can master a grief but he that has it.” Now this may have been true in 1598, but that was before WYG’s ‘Eight Step Plan for Mastering Grief’! Read on...
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Winter is Coming: 64 tips for grieving through the winter blues
Okay, so it may feel like we are jumping the gun with a post about winter blues on the first day of fall, but we have good reason. I promise. Weather can have a real impact on mood and coping,...
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Conceptualizing Progress in Grief
We often use the simile that grief is like a journey and while grief is a little bit like a journey, it’s not the perfect comparison. The word ‘journey’ is not quite right because (1) I think it makes...
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Problem Solving Grief
Grief isn’t a problem that can be solved. I want to make sure we’re all clear on this before proceeding. Agree? Great. Now that we’re all on the same page, let’s talk about problem solving. I know I...
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5 Reasons Why it Can Be Hard to Cope With Loss
A few months ago we received an email asking us to explain the difference between “grieving” and “coping”. Although these are two distinct and different undertakings, they do intertwine so I can see...
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Reconnecting with Life After Loss (One step at a time)
If you prefer to listen to your grief support, check out our podcast on this same topic. ———————————————————————— You’ve been there before. Heck, we’ve all been there. It’s been a long week, you’re...
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The Dissonance of Things Left Unsaid
I want you to imagine you’re listening to a child playing the piano. This particular child is relatively new to piano and has just started learning the complicated business playing chords. As you...
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Making Time for Grief During Pregnancy
Today we’d like to welcome guest author Dana Schwartz to discuss what she has learned from her experience grieving during pregnancy. As some of you know, this topic is close to my heart because I lost...
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Balancing Selflessness and Self-Care in Grief
Are you the family member everyone looks to when times get tough? Are you who your friends call when they need a supportive ear? Are you in touch with everyone else’s needs, but kinda clueless about...
View ArticleThe Reality of Growth and Grief: where the hell is my rainbow?
If you regularly read WYG you might have noticed that Eleanor and I can be a wee bit pessimistic from time to time. Okay, maybe a little more than a ‘wee bit’. Actually, get me and Eleanor in a room...
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The Truth about Posttraumatic Growth After Loss
Litsa and I have long had a bee in our bonnet over the rhetoric around grief self-help. Not all grief self-help of course, but specifically that which puts forth the notion that, with the proper...
View ArticleSpotting Emotional Manipulation in your Support System
Today we want to talk about dealing with people who are maybe not so good for you in your grief or, oh say, life in general. These people come in all shapes and sizes, but mostly we’d like to...
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Are you there yet? The pressure to get over grief
Don’t you guys just love taking road trips with little kids? Without kids, who would make you stop to go to the bathroom every hour? Who would loudly argue just two feet behind your head as you...
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Buddha, Nietzsche and Grief
Many moons ago I wrote a post about how philosophy became my primary grief support when I was in college. Weird, I know. But when you are 19 years old seeking grief support isn’t exactly on the top...
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Grief Hacks: Lists and Little Journals
Experiencing the death of a loved one can throw a person all out of whack, am I right? Grief is known to impact physical, emotional and cognitive function and can make it difficult for you to...
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