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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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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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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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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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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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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...
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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“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 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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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...
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