Hospitals and Healthcare

How having pictures of a funeral can help the bereaved remember their loved ones.

Why it's okay to use social media to mourn.

When Amy Green's young son was diagnosed with a rare brain tumor, she made up a bedtime story for his siblings to teach them about cancer. What resulted was a video game, "That Dragon, Cancer," which takes players on a journey they can't win. In this beautiful talk about coping with loss, Green brings joy and play to tragedy. "We made a game that's hard to play," she says, "because the hardest moments of our lives change us more than any goal we could ever accomplish."

I used to think of babies dying as something the Victorians had to endure, not us. If only

What to say to the newly bereaved instead of “I just don’t know what to say.”

Grief is a tangible part of life for adults and children, yet our society lacks a roadmap for us to follow

Grief is something that nearly all of us will experience and it's not something you have to "get over".

Another way to say that you are grieving is that a part of you is stuck in a moment in time. 

 Sometimes the cause of the stuckness isn’t the grief itself, but the fact that you don’t even recognize that you’ve lost something and that you need to grieve. 

Grief is a word that is used interchangeably with bereavement, but grief is not exclusively about the physical death of a person.

Grief doesn't fit in a box, either. Some forms of grief take years to work through, other types take a few solid months, some take a single moment of deep acknowledgement.

Grief is not a problem to be solved or resolved. Rather, it’s a process to be lived through in whatever form and amount of time it may take.