What is toxic positivity in grief?
Not all positivity is bad. In fact, in grief it can be crucial. So what is the difference between positivity and toxic positivity?
What's Your Grief Lyric? A Collection of Lyrics About Grief
Choose one song lyric or verse to express the grief you're feeling right now, in this moment. What is it? We asked the What's Your Grief community about the grief lyrics that resonate with them and together we made a playlist of over 70 songs. #grief #music #griefmusic #lyrics #grieflyrics #verse #griefverse #griefandloss #griefquotes #griefcoping #musicaboutgrief via @whatsyourgrief
I Miss the Sound of Your Voice: Grieving Sensory Memory
One of the saddest things about life after loss is sensory memory, things like the sound of a loved one's voice and smell of their clothes, start to fade
I'm Grieving and You Don't Know "Just How I Feel" - Whats your Grief
There are quite a few misguided phrases that grieving people find upsetting, but perhaps none so much as "I know how you feel."
Mary Poppins Returns Gets Grief Right - Whats your Grief
[Disney] On the morning that Mary Poppins floats into the Banks’ life, it seems like everything is about to go to hell in a handbag, or a carpet bag rather. Twenty-five years have passed since Mary Poppins first visited the Banks’ family in the 1964 movie. Michael Banks is […]
Grieving Who I Used To Be - Whats your Grief
As common as the term ‘new normal’ is among those grieving (though it is a term I personally can’t stand!), I am always shocked how many people email or message us asking ‘how long until I feel normal again’. Other variations are something like ‘my family thinks I […]
How To Help A Grieving Friend: Beyond The Basics - Whats your Grief
This isn’t our first post on how to support a friend who is grieving. It probably won’t be our last. But we have a specifc goal today. We want to provide a one-stop-‘Beyond the Basics’-shop for those looking to better help a friend who is grieving. Today we […]
How to Cope When it Seems Like Everyone Wants to Forget - Whats your Grief
I recently read a quote from grief researcher and theorist Kenneth Doka that said: “All grief becomes disenfranchised over time.” I actually read this off a PowerPoint slide that I randomly stumbled upon on the Internet, so I don’t have much context, but I think I understand his […]
How to Cope When it Seems Like Everyone Wants to Forget - Whats your Grief
I recently read a quote from grief researcher and theorist Kenneth Doka that said: “All grief becomes disenfranchised over time.” I actually read this off a PowerPoint slide that I randomly stumbled upon on the Internet, so I don’t have much context, but I think I understand his […]
WYG's Definition of Grief - Whats your Grief
We’ve written extensively about grief over the years. We’ve expanded and clarified; we’ve waxed poetic; and, yes, perhaps we’ve even pontificated a little on the subject. Though our hope is always to explain and simplify, I sometimes worry that with 555 articles averaging around 1,000 words apiece we’ve […]
What Does it Mean to Be Strong in Grief? - Whats your Grief
Being strong in grief is far different than most understand it to be. It's brave as hell, but it feels like the opposite.
A Grief Intensified. A Grief Sidelined. A Grief Forgotten. - Whats your Grief
Like so many things in life, grief is both an internal and external event. Our internal experience of loss is constantly interfacing with the external world around us. Before the world changed several months ago, this might have meant a good day derailed by an intense reminder. It […]
Absent Grief: Why Am I Not Grieving Like I Expected To?
Absent grief is common, but often when people experience it they wonder, "What's wrong with me?! Why am I not grieving?!"
Guilt and Grief: Making A Living Amends - Whats your Grief
It would be easy to think there is nothing more WYG can write about guilt and grief. We’ve written about how common guilt is in grief (you wouldn’t believe how many people get the “coulda woulda shouldas”). We wrote an article about the difference between guilt and regret. […]
Rethinking Acceptance in Grief: a love/hate story
#grief #grieving #acceptance
If She'll Always Be With Me, Why Don't I Feel Her?
#grief #grieving #feeling