but only when the death is very close to you—an immediate family member, a spouse, a child, or a best friend—do people extend traditional condolences. In fact, you may find that your work will not grant you time off, and bereavement...
Everyone will experience loss in this lifetime, but spies know how to grieve and turn loss into strength. Grief is the only pain you are guaranteed in life. But that pain does not have to destroy you. I grew up believing I was born a bastard child; a son without a father from a mo...
To grieve is an act of love for those that died and for ourselves. Appreciating grief can help us move past it. The death of a loved one can be a time for redefining our relationship to them. "Grief is itself a medicine." –William Cowper "Grief develops the powers of ...
“Practise, then, from the very beginning to say to every disagreeable impression, ‘You’re an impression and not at all what you appear to be.’ Then examine it and test it by these rules that you possess, and first and foremost by this one, whether the impression relates to those th...
hurt for me to say that because who thinks someone you truely love would ask you something like that and mean it but i had to tell the truth. i and after I said that I felt like i could have been happy through that time we were together but i chose to grieve on past hurt and ...
emotions after losing a parent. Also, keep in mind there’s no right or wrong way to grieve. There are many ways to cope on your own — like by embracing your emotions or finding support from friends and family members — but sometimes you might need more to process the loss of a ...
Finally, I always love my mother’s suggestion for one of the best questions you can ask in any situation whether it be posed to a friend, a spouse, a child, a coworker. When someone comes to you with a complaint, a problem, or a rant asking the simple question, “Do you...
It wasn’t easy, but I can say that she and I are now closer than we’ve ever been and she really did rise to the occasion and was able to help me grieve and mourn. Helping a grieving friend is complicated by the fact that each person grieves or mourns differently, just as each ...
And yes, you will. You need to. You just closed a huge chapter in your life and you’re about to embark on a whole new life but you have to grieve the loss of the life you’ve known for the last x amount of years too.
A modern translation of the ancient Roman poet Ovid’s Remedies for Love —a witty and irreverent work about how to fall out of love Breakups are the worst. On one scale devised by psychiatrists, only a spouse’s death was ranked as more stressful than a