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Understanding Your Grief: Ten Touchstones for Finding Hope and Healing Your Heart

Leave a Comment / Advice for the Grieving / By Alan Wolfelt

Part 1 of 4 by Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D. Editor’s note: This four-part series is excerpted and greatly condensed from the second edition of Dr. Wolfelt’s classic Understanding Your Grief, first published thirty years ago. The new edition, just published in September 2021, retains the original bestseller’s compassionate content but adds concise passages on more […]

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Eight Useful Tips for Writing Meaningful Sympathy Cards

Leave a Comment / Advice for the Grieving / By Pearl Holland

Editor’s Note: we get this question a lot. Also, many of those who have suffered loss are in a demographic that predicts we will know someone else who is bereaved. by Pearl Holland A sympathy card or note is a message sent to someone who has recently lost a loved one. The purpose of a

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Working While Mourning: How To Grieve When You’re On The Job

Leave a Comment / Advice for the Grieving / By Adrian Martin

by Adrian Martin One of the hardest parts about losing someone is that after they’re gone, your life goes on. You still have the same responsibilities to keep up, from your full-time job to your household chores. Working while mourning is a challenge. Perhaps you’ve taken time off, and now you’re scheduled to return to

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Grieving and Mourning–a crucial distinction: AfterTalk Weekly

Leave a Comment / Advice for the Grieving / By Alan Wolfelt

Grieving vs. Mourning: People tend to use the two words interchangeably. But there is a crucial distinction. By Alan D. Wolfelt, PhD. I often remind myself that there is no love without loss. And there is no integration of loss without the experience of mourning. Your capacity to love requires the necessity to mourn. To

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How to take control and experience happiness again by getting organized and setting goals after loss

Leave a Comment / Advice for the Grieving / By Linda Donovan

How to take control and experience happiness again by getting organized and setting goals after loss Getting organized can help you focus on what’s important after loss. You may have your own approach to getting started. For some reason, whenever I experience any type of loss (not necessarily related to the death of someone), one

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