1. Understanding Your Grief, Alan D. Wolfelt. Among the experts we spoke to, nearly all cited Alan Wolfelt, the founder of the Center for Loss and Life Transition, as their No. 1 author on grief.

The whole topic of grief became popular back in 1969 when psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross introduced her “five stages of grief.” What many people don’t realize is that her work was based ...

Pet loss causes deep grief that our society ignores. We need to talk about it. Charles Trepany. USA TODAY. This story was first published Oct. 31, 2023. I knew the day was coming.

After Loss, Turning To Poetry For Grief And Healing After the death of his father, the poet Kevin Young looked for a collection of poetry about grieving and recovering after loss.

Churches are making room for grief and loss at Christmas More and more congregations are trying to be sensitive to those who are grieving during the holidays. The move ranges from special services ...

Oliver, the hugely popular poet, died Thursday. Readers turned to her work to find comfort. Here’s a selection of some of her best-known writing on loss and mourning.

It was a loss that Adam Gerace, a senior psychology lecturer at Central Queensland University in Australia, wanted to know more about. So he asked almost 1,300 Australians how they were feeling ...

If you've suffered a devastating loss, it can feel impossible to know how to cope with grief when it consumes you. Whether you've experienced the death of a loved one, a tumultuous breakup, or ...

In time, I learned about resilient grief, a concept that was developed by Dr. Lucy Hone after the unspeakable loss of her daughter, best-friend, and best-friend’s daughter in a car accident in 2012.

New research suggests exercise can help people cope with grief after the loss of a loved one by alleviating feelings of depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder. Exercise can create ...

In an intimate conversation about loss on Anderson Cooper’s new CNN podcast All There Is, “The Late Show” host Stephen Colbert opened up about what he thinks makes grief feel so ...

Grief is a natural process, an intense fundamental emotion, a universal experience which makes us human. It is a process that entails extremely hard work over a period of many ...