When Everyone Expects You to Be the Strong One in Grief
I had spent years learning how to command a room. Then my mother died, and suddenly I wanted to disappear into one. When Everyone Expects You to Be the Strong One in Grief By the time my mother died, I knew how to perform. Not perform grief. Perform, period. I had...
Caregiver Guilt: Why We Think We Should Have Known
One of the cruelest tricks grief plays on caregivers is convincing us that because we understand something now, we should have understood it then. Caregiver Guilt: Why We Think We Should Have Known There is a particular sentence grieving people seem to love torturing...
Can Loved Ones Still Guide Us After Death? | Jon-David
I don’t know exactly what happens after we die. But I have developed a theory: maybe the people we love don’t stop helping us. Maybe they simply change departments. Can Loved Ones Still Guide Us After Death? | Jon-David I pray to my mother. Actually, that’s not quite...