When we talk about grief, we tend to think of funerals and final goodbyes. But loss wears many faces—and not all of them involve death. Sometimes grief shows up quietly, when a chapter closes, a ...
The word grief has come to be understood solely as a reaction to a death. But that narrow understanding fails to encompass the range of human experiences that create and trigger grief. Here are four ...
Grief follows no rules, and there are times we find ourselves grieving someone who is still alive. Death is not the only kind of loss we experience, after all. People are lost to us in many other ways ...
Grief, in short, is the natural reaction to loss. It can be caused by all kinds of losses — the death of a loved one, a pet, losing one's job, divorce, or many kinds of life changes. It's something ...
Yusen Zhai, Ph.D., director of the University of Alabama at Birmingham Community Counseling Clinic, says grief is an inevitable, multifaceted experience for individuals facing loss and offers insights ...
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Regrettably, the despair of giving up a leadership role is a type of grief we are expected to quietly suppress. We are socially conditioned to be excited about what the next chapter of our lives holds ...