Grief can feel isolating. In the tender days after loss — and even years later — many people quietly carry heartbreak without a safe place to bring it. This Valentine season, you can show up for someone who needs care, community, and compassionate space. Our dedicated Board at Doing Grief gave $1,996.50 to sustain DoingContinue reading “Be a Valentine. Be the Matchmaker.”
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Grieving Your Way Home to Yourself
After my best friend Sheri’s death in high school, I didn’t have a single adult in my life who knew how to respond to my pain or show me the way to heal it. Their floundering in the face of my grief was as frightening to me as the fact that my dear friend couldContinue reading “Grieving Your Way Home to Yourself”
Apologies from a Reluctant Blogger
Dear subscribers: My apologies. I haven’t blogged for awhile. That doesn’t mean I take you for granted. Quite the opposite. Every time I get a new subscriber on my blog, I do a little dance of joy. It is a highlight of my day. In way of explanation for my absence in your inbox,Continue reading “Apologies from a Reluctant Blogger”
Making Your Grief Useful
Grief. Grieving. What’s the difference? Grief is to grieving as the eye is to seeing, as the ear is to hearing. Think of grief as an invisible organ of perception. Think of the difference between grief and grieving as the difference between what a person is and what a person does. Grief is a partContinue reading “Making Your Grief Useful “
Laughing in the Face of Loss
Some say that the only way to heal grief is to face it and “move through” the pain. I beg to differ. Healing grief is more of a dance. It is holding grief close and letting it go. It is thinking about it and not thinking about it, talking about it and not talking aboutContinue reading “Laughing in the Face of Loss”
Defining Grief on Your Own Terms
Before you know how to heal your grief, you have to get to know the grief that is yours to heal. Put simply, grief is the spontaneous suffering you experience when you are subject to a real or imagined loss of someone or something you greatly value or cherish. But what makes grief so difficultContinue reading “Defining Grief on Your Own Terms”
The Grief in Our Gratitude
We settlers call it “Thanksgiving.” They who were here before us call it “National Day of Mourning.” We remember noble natives sharing fruits and labor, a table spread, wisdom given. They remember 12 million massacred by those who feasted at their table and came wanting more. We sought our freedom at any cost. They paidContinue reading “The Grief in Our Gratitude”
Courage to Heal
In ancient times, there was born a legend of two sea-faring dangers: Scylla and Charybdis. The two monsters dwelt on opposite shores of the Strait of Messina. They were poised to destroy anyone courageous or ignorant enough to pass between them. It was told that Scylla and Charybdis had once been strong, beautiful sea nymphsContinue reading “Courage to Heal”
It’s Grief Awareness Day
Grief comes in all shapes and sizes. Please reach out to someone you know who is suffering grief today – yourself included. “It isn’t the volume of pain that determines its impact. Silent pain can kill just as noisy pain can heal. Attune yourself to the suffering that cannot be heard. Shea Darian, from DoingContinue reading “It’s Grief Awareness Day”
Blessing the Infant Within You
An Audio Contemplation from Doing Grief in Real Life It’s been said that infants commune with angels, that babies and toddlers are protected by spiritual powers from beyond. This seems only right when one considers the vulnerability of the newborn. Angel theories aside, as an infant, your fate rests mostly in the arms of yourContinue reading “Blessing the Infant Within You”