Sorrow is an emotion that can be a challenge to overcome. When a death in the family, a relationship breakup, or another personal tragedy has caused your sadness, you may consider hope, happiness, and peace to be difficult or even impossible to achieve. However, you...
Many people find grief support groups very helpful as they move through the grieving process. These support groups are available online and in communities around the world. Usually, they are led by a trained moderator, but the chance to learn from each other is...
Merriam Webster gives grief’s definition as, “deep and poignant distress caused by or as if by bereavement.” While there is no arguing with this grief definition, it lacks a lot of the raw emotion that people often feel when they are working through the grief process....
If adults have their own coping mechanism when it comes to understanding death, children have very different reactions to such tragic events. The reactions depend on many factors, from the child’s age, to whether or not he or she had to deal with death before, to the...
People who are deprived of something important to them might be in the state of bereavement. Loss affects all of us one way or another. This occurs mostly when you lose someone close to you or a family member, relative or dear friend dies. In this post, we wanted to...
Whether we’ve been through the extremely difficult experience of losing someone ourselves, or we comforted someone who did, we’re all in some way or another accustomed to grief. In the moments following a loss, or those in which you are made aware of the fact that you...