Displaying all articles tagged:

Grief

  1. mental health
    When a Doll Is More Than a DollFor some, reborns — realistic dolls modeled after infants — aren’t just a collector’s item.
    By Amanda Arnold
  2. advice
    What to Say When Someone DiesWe asked experts for advice on how to support friends and loved ones when someone dies.
    By Anne Cruz
  3. climate change
    Let Yourself Feel How Bad This IsThe case for climate grief.
    By Bridget Read
  4. ask polly
    ‘Will Grief Destroy My New Marriage?’You need to become brave enough to talk about this with the people who know you.
    By Heather Havrilesky
  5. science of us
    What to Say When You Don’t Know What to SayHow to be supportive when words seem pointless.
    By Edith Zimmerman
  6. first person
    Our Sister BeckyWhat if the doctors had listened to her?
    By Kate Beaton
  7. it's complicated
    How Soon After Widowhood Can You Feel Good Again?Relearning sex, and love, in the aftermath of my husband’s death.
    By Rachel Zimmerman
  8. first person
    Novelist Deborah Levy Remembers Her Fearless Mother’s Last DaysIn this excerpt from her new memoir, The Cost of Living, Deborah Levy recounts her fearless mother’s life and death.
    By Deborah Levy
  9. it's complicated
    The Strangeness of Dating Again After My Dad’s DeathMourning my dad made all the normal preoccupations of having a crush suddenly feel ridiculous.
    By Aileen Comer
  10. modern love
    Read This and Cry … It’s FridayThe widower of the woman who wrote a viral Modern Love essay about her terminal illness has written a follow-up reflecting on his grief.
    By Madeleine Aggeler
  13. first person
    Mourning My Mother Through the Bags She Left BehindMy style turned out to be not so different from hers.
    By Kristen Martin
  14. science of us
    The Complicated Grief That Comes With Being a Burglary VictimLosing the heirlooms my aunt had left for me felt like losing her all over again.
    By Luisa Rollenhagen
  15. science of us
    The Strange Pregnancy Fact That Helped Me Mourn My Fiancé’s DeathI’d lost the pregnancy, too, but microchimerism — when a mother absorbs a fetus’s DNA — still felt like the perfect metaphor.
    By Shannon Leone Fowler
  16. science of us
    The Grief Counselor Helping People Mourn Their Pets“Because animals are thought to be replaceable, people say, ‘Well, you can solve this problem. Just go get another one.’”
    By Stephanie LaFarge as told to Roni Jacobson
  17. books
    Sheryl Sandberg’s Impossible PositionWhat her new book shows us about being a woman in the public eye.
    By Heather Havrilesky
  18. Become More Resilient by Learning to Take Joy SeriouslyTalking to Adam Grant about his new book, Option B, which he wrote with Sheryl Sandberg after her husband’s death.
    By Brad Stulberg
  19. keeping up with the royals
    Prince Harry Reveals He Sought a Therapist to Cope With Princess Diana’s Death“I have probably been very close to a complete breakdown on numerous occasions.”
    By Lisa Ryan
  20. advice
    How to Help a Friend Who’s Going Through Something HorribleIf you think you don’t need this book, you probably do.
    By Alex Ronan
  21. mothers day 2016
    How a Man Treats His Mother Tells You Everything You Need to KnowThe good, the bad, and the unbelievably beautiful.
    By Mandy Stadtmiller
  22. mothers and daughters
    What I Learned From Losing My Mother When I Was 17“I know mothers can cause people problems. But it’s hard to listen to people’s bellyaches about how terrible their mother is.”
    As told to Alexa Tsoulis-Reay
  25. truth in beauty
    Spas Aren’t Only About Beauty, Vanity, or Fun. They’re Also About Grief.Bathed in tears, we all found relief.
    By Linda Wells
  26. in memoriam
    Sheryl Sandberg Shares What She’s Learned After Her Husband’s Death“I gained a more profound understanding of what it is to be a mother,” she wrote in a Facebook post today. 
    By Erica Schwiegershausen
  27. What to Say to a Grieving FriendDon’t be afraid to use the name of the person who’s died. 
    By Melissa Dahl