“Grief”—yeah, we all seize up a little when we hear that word. No matter who you are, at some point in your life you’ve experienced the heartache and dread of tragedy, whether from a break-up, a job ...

A decade later, she spoke to me about her grief in metaphors, as something ongoing rather than completed, a process that had shifted shape over time but had not ended. Ella’s experience is not unusual ...

CNN — (CNN) — When someone you love dies, the world as you’ve known it is totally upended. One way people cope, psychologist Sherry Cormier said, is by trying to find some sort of certainty. This need ...

Sez who? Sez us - the folks who've been in the trenches with grieving people for more than 30 years. In the fall of 2008, Skeptic magazine - Vol. 14, Number 2, 2008 - published The Myth of the Stages ...

Again, it appeared in print - the stages of grief. This time it was in an Austin American Statesman article about a soon-to-be closed bar near the University of Texas campus. A young man who is a ...

We all know the five stages of grief outlined by Swiss-American psychiatrist, Elizabeth Kübler Ross in 1970. She spoke about these stages, elucidated in her best-selling book, "On Death and Dying." ...

Ludman and Gina Junger’s 405-page book, The Jewish Journey Through Loss: From Death to Healing.  The book is by a Jewish clinical psychologist and Jewish educator. With warm, caring, sometimes ...

As executor of my father’s will, I tried my best to navigate the insane bureaucracy and cost that dying incurs. But in the ...