How to Grieve Something That Isn’t Death

How To Grieve Something That Isnt Death

Grief is not reserved for death, even though almost everything written about it assumes a funeral. You can grieve a relationship that ended without anyone dying, a job that defined you, a future you spent years expecting that will now never happen, or a person who is still alive but no longer reachable. This is

Parents of Estranged Adult Children: The Grief No One Sends a Card For

Parents Of Estranged Adult Children

The grief that comes with being estranged from an adult child is one of the loneliest kinds of loss I encountered across two decades of hospice work. It does not have a name in the way that bereavement does. There is no card for it, no ritual, no established language for what a parent carries