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Cumulative grief aka grief overload aka “holy crap I can’t handle all this...
The other day we posted on the blog about different types of grief and we got a great comment pointing out a grief type we hadn’t mentioned, cumulative grief. The commenter said, “I read something a...
View ArticleGrieving Before A Death: Understanding Anticipatory Grief
Just want the concrete info on anticipatory grief without all this personal reflection crap? No problem, you won’t hurt my feelings if you skip the first four paragraphs! I spent a lot of time with...
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Saying Goodbye to a Home and Grieving Places Past
Pardon my reflection, if you are looking for concrete ideas feel free to scroll to the bottom. My grandmother belonged in her home like a doll in her dollhouse. Each article of clothing, piece of...
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Support for Grieving a Military Loss
This Memorial Day we take time to remember the thousands of families who have lost loved ones who were serving their country. Our gratitude for their service and sacrifice seems impossible to put in...
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The Myth of the Grief Timeline
How long does it take to fall in love? How many seconds pass before a parent loves their newborn child? How many kisses before boy is head over heels for girl? And how many tears are shed before girl...
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Expanding Our Understanding of Loss and Grief
Our society seems pretty comfortable with the following if-then logic. “If there has been a death then there will be grief” This logic is easily observed and understood by just about anyone. In fact,...
View ArticleAmbiguous Grief: Grieving Someone Who Is Still Alive
My guess is that when people read the title of this article they will react with either a, “what are they talking about? How can someone be grieving someone who is still alive and what the heck is...
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Grief After Abortion: healing from unspoken loss
There are posts that we write here on WYG that travel like wildfire. In the course of a day or two we see the reach on social media climb, people commenting, sharing and resharing. We love it,...
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12 Challenges for Grieving Extroverts
If you prefer to listen to your grief support, check out the above podcast where we discuss extroverts and grief. ————————————————— A while back Eleanor wrote a great post on grieving as an introvert;...
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The Grief Wall: Loss of Identity After Stillbirth
This essay was written by one of our grief friends, Alex. We very rarely have guest posts, only when we know the writer’s message will resonate with those who’ve had similar experiences in a way we...
View ArticleUnderstanding Survivor Guilt
Guilt. We have talked about it from a lot of different angles around here. We have talked about the shoulda, woulda, couldas. We have talked about regret, about guilt after an overdose death, and...
View ArticleWhen Your Best Friend Dies
We got an email last week from someone who lost a friend. Not just any friend, her best friend. The kind of friend that is family. You know the kind of friend I mean. Here is a little clip from her...
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Grieving the Death of a Spouse or Significant Other
Death, regardless of the details, is capable of devastating those it leaves behind. Brother, sister, son, daughter, mother, or father – all losses are significant. Although commonalities exist...
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Grieving a Suicide Death
According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2013 there were 41,149 suicides in the United States. This rate is equal to 113 suicides each day or one every 13 minutes. Surveys have...
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Grieving an Online Friend: 8 things you should know about cybergrief
When you saw the title of this post my guess is you had one of two reactions: Ah, finally WYG is writing about cybergrief. What took them so long?!? OR Uhhh, cybergrief . . .??? We have mentioned...
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When Grief Gets Physical: dealing with physical grief symptoms
There is simply no way to anticipate what grief feels like. It is one of those experiences that you can describe to someone, but it is impossible to really understand it until you are forced to live...
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Grieving the Loss of Hopes and Dreams
I just realized my birthday is tomorrow. Seriously, I totally forgot. Although I’m always bad with dates, truthfully I think this is more the product of selective inattention. I know bemoaning your...
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Grieving the Death of a Sibling
As a general rule, we hesitate to write about different types of loss. To clarify, I am not referring to types of grief, which we’ve written about extensively. Instead, I am referring to loss in...
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Grief After Traumatic Loss
Recently a reader emailed us and asked if we’d write a post about grieving a violent death. She’d been looking around the Internet for resources and information on the topic and had noticed the...
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Grieving the Death of a Grandparent
My last memories of my grandmother are from my wedding in November of 2005. To be honest, I wasn’t thinking very much about her at the time because (1) I was getting married and (2) I was still coming...
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