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As a new member of the board of OUR HOUSE GRIEF SUPPORT CENTER http://www.ourhouse-grief.org/, which helped me to find solace after Peter died, I have been diligent about immersing myself in the [...]

When my adored, amazing niece Ellie got engaged this year I was overjoyed.  Peter had known her fantastic boyfriend Simon, who is a kind and handsome dude, and picture perfect for my niece.  They [...]

It has been over three years since Peter died, and I have learned to be OK while rambling around in my big house.  I sleep on one side of the bed and since I don’t thrash around at night, [...]

It has been three years since Peter died suddenly in my arms.  It has been three long and interminable years of grief, ever fighting to swim to the surface to get a breather of joy.  [...]

“No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well [...]

The “Hedonic Treadmill” is a term coined in 1971, by two psychologists named Brickman and Campbell, who espoused the theory that a person’s level of happiness remains at a set point throughout [...]

Thanatophobia is an anxiety triggered by constant thoughts of either one’s own death, or a loved one’s demise.  When I was a child, I was left alone a great deal of the time, and I can remember [...]

TWE Radio: Author Laurie Burrows Grad On Grief, Widowhood and Recovering from Loss If you would like to sign up for my blogs follow this link: http://lauriegrad.com/newsletter-signup/ My book [...]

People are afraid to use the word “dead.”  They refer to death instead as passed away; gone to other pastures; departed; resting in peace; in a better place; and other silly euphemisms and secret [...]

Grief is still a four-letter word in my vocabulary, and one that often rhymes with muck, but I have learned to use grief in a positive way to plow forward on my journey towards a modicum of [...]