grieving Archives

Why Our Dog’s Gift To Us In Dying Was Closeness

Monday, July 24 2017

After 28 years of being together, my husband and I divorced. My son and two daughters were in their teens. The divorce and the years leading up to it had been very painful for each

Permission to Feel Sad This Holiday Season

Tuesday, December 27 2016

Three years ago on Christmas morning, I started crying. My grandmother had died a month earlier and I was spending Christmas with my in-laws. Suddenly I felt bad as if I had abandoned my