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Grief Meets The Smart Phone
It won’t be news to any of you when I say that while you are grieving you can be doing fine one minute and having a total meltdown the next (sometimes in Target, in the sock aisle). There are plenty...
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What’s Your Grief 101
Welcome to What’s Your Grief 101. Today’s post is a bit of a guide, a place to start here at WYG. For those of you who have been hanging out with us for a while, these may be familiar old favs, or...
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9 Creative Ways to Preserve Handwriting
My dad had the most perfect penmanship. He attributed it to his Catholic school education, the nuns beat it into me, he would say. Whether he was writing with his left or right hand, his handwriting...
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Support for Grieving Children: Grief Centers and the National Alliance for...
Oh man, you should have seen us the other day, heavy bags slung over our shoulders dragging oversized and awkwardly shaped boxes through the parking lot of the Red Lion in Jantzen Beach, Oregon. We...
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Grief Art Journaling for the Artistically Challenged
Those of you who follow WYG may have noticed a pretty glaring oversight during the month of June. Father’s Day came and went and we didn’t do a single new article about it. We reposted old articles...
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Internet Grief Support: With the good comes the bad
Obviously, we are big proponents of grief support on the internet…because WYG offers grief support on the internet, keep up people. Although the world of internet grief support is relatively new and...
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PhotoGrief: A New Resource for Coping With Grief
According to Merriam-Webster the definition of ‘cope’, as we use it at What’s Your Grief is … Cope [verb] a. to maintain a contest or combat usually on even terms or with success b. to deal with and...
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In Defense of the Grief Selfie
Once upon a time, many moons ago, Eleanor wrote an amazing post about self-portraits. In that post, in case you missed it or failed to commit it to memory, she said: There was a time when I didn’t...
View ArticleGrief and Forgiveness Part Two: 12 Tips for Self-Forgiveness
Remember when I wrote a post on grief and forgiveness and I promised I would follow it up with a second post on grief and self-forgiveness? Come on, think reeeally hard. Go way back in your WYG...
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Family Misunderstanding After a Death
Ahhhh family. Family, family, family. Family can be great, but that’s not what this post is about. This post is about death and grief and all those times you’ve looked at a family member and said –...
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Grief and Negative Coping
Today I want to have a no-frills, straightforward discussion about grief and negative coping. People commonly engage in negative coping (c’mon, you know you do), especially people who have experienced...
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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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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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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...
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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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 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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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...
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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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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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