Stage Models for Grief are “Sus”

Stage Models for Grief are “Sus”

by | Feb 6, 2025 | Articles, Death of a Parent, Death of a Partner, Death of a Sibling, Exploring Loss, Grief, and the Odyssey Toward Self-Renovation, Grieving Adults, Grieving Children, Resources

By David Fireman Grief is one of life’s most complex emotional experiences, which profoundly shapes our understanding of love, loss, survival, and recovery. It is often discussed through the lens of stage models, which attempt to describe the psychological and...
Personal Grief Rituals by Paul M. Martin

Personal Grief Rituals by Paul M. Martin

by | Oct 24, 2022 | Articles, Communal Grief, Death of a Parent, Death of a Partner, Death of a Sibling, Grief in the Workplace, Grieving Adults, Grieving After a Miscarriage or Still Birth, Grieving and the Holidays, Grieving Children, Helpful Books, Notes from the Center, Resources, Self Care, Suicide and Overdose, When Someone Dies by Suicide

Personal Grief Rituals presents a new model for how bereaved individuals can create unique expressions of mourning that are tailored to their psychological needs and grounded in memories and emotions specific to the relationship they lost. This book examines cultures...
On the Washington Post’s “How to Grieve During a Pandemic”

On the Washington Post’s “How to Grieve During a Pandemic”

by | Dec 27, 2021 | Articles, Communal Grief, Death of a Parent, Death of a Partner, Death of a Sibling, Grieving Adults, Grieving Children, Resources, Self Care

To witness is to protect and preserve experience from being denied out of existence.  As mourners we go through phases of protest, not the least of which is the fight to not have our grief taken away from us. Back in September, 2020 when the total number estimated...