A must-read review of 10 favorite grief counseling resources for children. Perfect for any counselor working with children who have experienced grief or lo

These children's books about grief are a great way to address loss and sadness with your children. Check out the variety of grief books here.

I grew up in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. I only moved there when I was ten but had lived a few places before then. So when we got there and stayed for almost eight years—all of middle and high school—it was home . The sprawling mess of corrugated tin structures and grand houses, the dusty, p

Grief therapy worksheets provide individuals with a structured approach to exploring and processing their emotions and thoughts following a loss. Designed for anyone seeking support in coping with grief, these worksheets offer a practical and useful tool to help individuals navigate the grieving process. By providing a clear entity and subject of focus, these worksheets are well-suited for individuals who prefer a guided approach to healing.

I’m looking right at her. I know her. In fact, I’ve known her for years. But please don’t ask me her name. I have no idea. It happens to all of us-meet someone in the store or a…

Tweets explaining grief using whiteboard drawing of a ball inside a box with sensitive areas. Do you want to learn something today or not?

Grief is so hard to deal with and due to the COVID-19 pandemic our worldwide community is going to be dealing with a lot of grief and loss. What is going to be especially hard is that some of our normal rituals around grief (wakes and funerals) are also going to be disrupted due to social distancing, so people may experience more difficulties without having expected closure rituals. My intention in this blog post is to compile resources you could use with your children to hel

We are born, we live, we learn, we grow. And then we die. Death is a part of life. Like a lot of people, I am no stranger to grief. Three of my grandparents died when I was a child and as an adult …

When you suffer a loss, the emotions can be overwhelming. WebMD explains the common responses to grief and offers ways to cope.

There really are no good articles on how to help an autistic person process grief. It is with this hole in mind that I create this article.

"They comforted their mom and she told them, repeatedly, it was okay to cry, it was okay to miss him, that they were all going to miss him. The kids said nothing. She kept repeating it."

An estimated 20 percent of children show signs or symptoms of a mental health problem. It's a destructive force in schools, but most educators don't have the training or resources to help.

“I’ve never seen a better graphical depiction of grief”

Too Clever X: Megan's Troublesome Pronouns is a children's educational book for 4th-6th graders, written and designed by Dr. Julia E. Antoine. Megan was always her daddy's girl. They both loved to read, and her dad was always there to help her with homework at night. Her little brother, Dilan, was very different than she was. He wasn't interested in reading and preferred to play games and watch television instead of doing schoolwork. Dilan was his mother's boy, and he was able to get just about anything he wanted from her. Their lives all changed one fateful day when Megan's mom arrived at her school. Megan was confused when she was sent to the principal's office, and she knew something horrible had happened when she saw her mom standing there and crying. When her mom told her that her dad had been in a car accident and was not expected to live, Megan started to cry too. The two of them rushed to the hospital so Megan could say goodbye to her dad, but she never had the chance. At first, she wouldn't leave her room and life seemed like it would never be worth living again, but slowly she started to heal. Dr. Julia E. Antoine's educational book for preteens and children, Too Clever X: Megan's Troublesome Pronouns, tackles some heavy subjects, the foremost being dealing with catastrophic loss and the grieving process. Megan and her family's loss is handled perceptively and intuitively by the author, and I found myself moved by the grief eleven-year-old Megan feels over the loss of her dad. Antoine's story shows that it is indeed possible to survive such a loss, and she does so in a respectful and poignant way. While life would never be the same again, Megan learns to appreciate and recognize the pain the rest of her family feels, and she's happy when she finally sees her mom going out and meeting people. As the title indicates, Antoine includes a marvelous educational component to this story -- the proper use of pronouns. It had been a troubling issue for Megan while her father was alive, and she's able to formulate her own grammar rules using the guidelines he taught her. Megan’s rules are brilliant, and I intend to employ her trigger rules when the need arises. Too Clever X: Megan's Troublesome Pronouns is a marvelous tale about a young girl's coming of age under the most trying of times, and it works magnificently. It's outstanding and most highly recommended.

Some people are so desperate for love, attention, and likes that they’re willing to do practically anything to draw in the crowd on social media. The sad fact is that some folks out themselves as bad parents when they take to humiliating their own kids for clicks. It’s worse than it sounds, dear Pandas.

A friend shared an insightful diagram with me called ‘The whirlpool of grief’, which I thought would be good to share here (see illustration far below). As soon as I saw this, it made p…

My first real heartbreak was the loss of our beloved family dog, Sugar. She had been my constant companion for as long as I could…

Authorities have arrested a man they allege is responsible for the slaying of a New York physician assistant, who was found bound and stabbed to death in his garage.

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Someone really close to me hurt me badly. This was back in September 2020. I won’t go into detail, but I spent weeks being virtually paralyzed with grief and depression.

My brain has been playing weird tricks on me lately. Tonight as the usual highlight (and lowlight) reel of everything that transpired ran through my head, it almost felt like I was watching a movie. "Lifetime Movies presents: the tragic story of the girl who lost her boyfriend to heroin when she had no idea he was using." As the flashbacks continued, I experienced the usual feelings of horror, shock, and sadness. But strangely, it was like I was feeling these feelings out of sympathy for someone else. How awful for that girl. What a tragic experience for her to go through. Thank God that's not me. Not my life. As the story continued to play out in my mind, I tried to get myself to connect to it. I couldn't. These were my memories, my life, my trauma, why did I feel so detached from it all? Was this all just a dream? Was Blake just that handsome older guy I barely knew from high school? Did everything between us even happen? It's terrifying how my mind seemed to be distorting my reality. Why? I've read all about the five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. I initially thought that the way they are listed is the usual order they occur. Based on that assumption, I thought that I must have skipped the "denial" stage. From the horrific moment the office manager pulled me out from lunch so my best friend could deliver the news about Blake's death, I knew he was gone and never coming back. I felt a million different things, but I never refused to admit to myself that the overdose happened. But I'm beginning to realize that denial comes in all different forms at unexpected times. This "trick" my brain has started playing on me, I think, is actually a form of denial. The underlying motivation of denial is that maybe if I don't acknowledge this is my pain, I can pretend I'm ok. My brain seemed to be trying to protect me through disassociation. Being the obsessive investigator that I've always been, I started researching online again about the stages of grief and loss. Is what I'm going through normal? What I found out was that this 5 stages of grief model is actually seen as outdated and not true for most people. Grief is typically a back-and-fourth between the five listed stages as well as several other phases. This diagram makes so much more sense to me. I appreciate how it acknowledges that grief isn't chronologically linear. There are more than just five stages and they can occur concurrently or in no particular order. The beginning spiral section recognizes that at any point, these feelings can be revisited (and sometimes again and again). It's not like I went through the anger stage and got to wipe my hands of it afterward: "Ok, I was mad at Blake for a day for lying to me and doing drugs, but now I've accepted it. Anger: check!" Just because I had an angry moment and it passed doesn't mean I won't re-experience that anger later. The same thing goes for depression and now denial too. Like I've come to realize in the past couple weeks, everything is coming in waves. There are times when my heart is filled with hope, days that my body gives up, minutes that feel like hours of panic, bouts of anger, quiet thoughts of guilt, moments of peace etc. etc. etc. There is no finish line with a banner that reads "Acceptance! You've made it!" Grieving is a process, and one that it's not neatly confined into five orderly steps.

Lysa TerKeurst's daughter Ashley TerKeurst Hodges puts her grief on display—and offers hope to ALL who are suffering.

There are things that you get over in life. For example a cold, your first breakup, or an argument with a good friend. More often than not, these things happen, they cause temporary misery, maybe you learn from it, and then you let bygones be bygones. Many experiences follow […]

"Last December, I lost the ability to write. I showed my husband my nonsensical scribble on our holiday cards. 'I don’t know what’s happening to me,' I sobbed."

There are many different types of losses such as job loss, pet loss, breakups, and infertility. Grief counseling can help no matter the type.

When grief and parenting clash, who's right? 🤷‍♀️💔

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