For much of the early twentieth century, grief was framed as a process of detachment. Healing meant “letting go,” “moving on, ...

In this short video, I share an excerpt from a journal entry I wrote after my husband passed away. I talk about the ...

Dear Annie: I am a 45-year-old man, and I was married for 17 years to my lovely wife until her untimely death a year ago. My wife and I have three children, one of whom is from her previous ...

How do we mourn what we’ve lost? To the Ancient Greeks, the answer lay in elegy. Derived from the Greek word “elegos,” meaning a song of lament, elegy was a form of poetry to commemorate the loss of a ...

Jennifer Mann and her husband, Jason, at their Franklin home in a photograph taken in 2014. Jason Mann died in 2018 from a rare form of bone cancer, leaving Jennifer Mann and their four children to ...

Joan Didion, author of "The Year of Magical Thinking," speaks at the College of Marin in Kentfield, California in February, 1977. Grief is a profound and complicated experience. The process of grief ...

The Super Bowl broadcast is an orgiastic victory parade of consumerism. I allow it anything. But this year it crossed a line when it used the Sandy Hook Elementary School choir to sing “America the ...

Moving on is rarely clean or linear. This article turns to six emotionally honest books that sit with grief, detachment, ...

Grief wears many faces. It can come from the death of a loved one, the end of a friendship, the loss of a beloved pet or the loss of something far less tangible but no less significant: a career, a ...

Grief doesn’t stay home when we return to work. Rethinking performance pressure, honesty, and healthy ways to carry loss at ...

Mother's Day is on Sunday May 12, but those grieving the loss of their mother or child may feel a lot of dread around this time of year. "Mother's Day is not a universal celebration for everyone," ...

Lauren Breen receives funding from Healthway and has previously received funding from Wellcome Trust, Australian Research Council, Department of Health (Western Australia), Silver Chain, iCare Dust ...