Understanding and Avoiding Comfort Shopping While Grieving
Kris PetersonComfort shopping, otherwise known as retail therapy or compulsive shopping, is becoming a lot more common with all the advances in technology. With the click of a button, you…
Grieving the Loss of a Parent to Suicide
Losing a parent is one of the hardest things anyone can go through. Sometimes you can prepare yourself for the inevitable such as old age, declining health, or a long-lasting…
Memorial Day and Bereavement
In Memoriam… In memory of, to honor the memory of those who have come before or have fallen. These words are powerful in nature and quite often, elicit a sobering…
Guest Blog Post: Lizzie, By Mark Murphy
Introduction From the American Academy of Bereavement: The death of a child is an incomprehensible and devastating loss. Grief for parents is lifelong, becoming the connection between parent and child. To…
Understanding Complicated Grief
The important thing to know about grief, is that while it can feel awful, it is a healthy adaptive process of healing. It is your brain’s way of making sense…