Dear Newly Bereaved Parent: With Every Morsel Of Unspeakable Pain, There Is Love

To lose a child is to lose the very heart and soul of you. It is overwhelmingly disorienting. It takes a long, long time to find yourself again. It takes a long time to grow new life around the chasm of such grave loss. It takes a long time to grow beauty from ashes.
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You're Still a Mother on Mother's Day if You've Had a Miscarriage

Recently, I was asked if it would be appropriate for a man to buy his wife a Mother's Day gift even after the loss of their unborn child.
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The 2 Truths I've Learned After Working Decades In Hospice

After spending hours at the bedside of my precious Grandma Daisy, I stepped out of her room to make a brief telephone call. At that moment, Grandma Daisy died. When I began working in hospice, I witnessed similar experiences.
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6 Ways That Adolescent Grief Is Different

Grieving adolescents are often left to fend for themselves or are offered support from counselors outside their community immediately after an event. Such support may be unwelcome, particularly by adolescents.
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5 Things I Learned From Helping My Dad Die

In honor of my dad, Robert Michelson, one of the most incredible men who ever spent a little time on this planet -- and in honor of the pain and grief and wonder conjured by death -- I am sharing five things that I learned while helping him die.
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'He's In A Better Place' -- And 14 Other Things You Should NEVER Say To The Bereaved

When someone says: 'He's in a better place.' What the widowed are thinking is: 'Better than here with me?'
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