Children and Grief: How to Help Them Cope with a Loss

How to support grieving college students – Part 1

Leave a Comment / Children and Grief, Grieving, Loss of a Parent, Loss of a Sibling / By Larry Lynn

Editor: In anticipation of tomorrow’s AfterTalk BlogTalk Radio program featuring Dr. David Fajgenbaum and his colleague Dr. Heather Servaty-Seib, we are reprinting their two-part article on supporting grieving college students. You can listen to the initial broadcast at 3pm tomorrow, November 18 at AfterTalkLIVE on BlogTalk Radio, or later in the AfterTalkLive archive. To listen, click this link: […]

How to support grieving college students – Part 1 Read More »

A Son Reflects on Father’s Cancer Death

Leave a Comment / Children and Grief, Grieving / By Larry Lynn

[Editor: a 27 year-old first year medical student was given the assignment of writing a personal reflection on an encounter he or a family member had with the healthcare system and what he might have learned from it. I thought it would be helpful to those who have lost someone to terminal cancer and wonder

A Son Reflects on Father’s Cancer Death Read More »

A Daughter, Grieving and Food

Leave a Comment / Children and Grief, Grieving, Loss of Father / By Caitlin Dorman

Memories do not always appear conveniently. Often, you can’t find them during a therapeutic conversation. Shortly afterwards, you can find yourself thrust into a grief ridden flashback, in the middle of your busy day, and completely alone. Recently, I was reading a book for school on “the globalization of the American psyche.” I had just

A Daughter, Grieving and Food Read More »

A Private Memory of my Dad

1 Comment / Children and Grief, Grief and Writing, Loss of Father / By Caitlin Dorman

Sharing Something That’s a Private Memory I was walking home from high school, and I bumped into one of my mother’s friends. She said there was a surprise waiting for me at home, and that I would be very happy. I walked into my apartment, and my dad was there – back from the hospital

A Private Memory of my Dad Read More »

Grieving and Mother’s Day

Leave a Comment / Children and Grief, Grieving During the Holidays, Grieving for my Mother / By Larry Lynn

[Editor: this was posted last Mother’s Day. Thought it was worth repeating] This Sunday will be the first Mother’s Day since my mom passed away eight weeks ago. It’s given me pause for reflection. I had the good fortune to know two great-grandmothers, two grandmothers, two mothers-in-law (one still living) and, of course, my own

Grieving and Mother’s Day Read More »