“Loss is never easy, but learning about the normal, necessary process of grief and mourning can help. Everyone grieves and mourns differently, but there are six steps that we all must encounter.” The ...

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When a family grieves a loss, a barrage of different emotions, reactions, and coping mechanisms will emerge, likely at different paces. The process of grief may include shutting down, crying, sleeping ...

In my last two posts, I have written about death and ways in which you can deal with it using the skills and the attitudes of resilience. We discussed the importance of not avoiding your feelings and ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — The death of 12-year-old Juan Acevedo has been devastating to his family, this community, and schoolmates at Larkspur Middle School. But among the challenges faced when a ...

Grief follows no rules, and there are times we find ourselves grieving someone who is still alive. Death is not the only kind of loss we experience, after all. People are lost to us in many other ways ...

Some things in life just go together like the dropped ice cream on the ground and a toddler’s cry or a young son’s first goodbye and a mother’s tears. When the first one occurs, it is followed by the ...

Cancer has touched the lives of so many, especially, in the Jewish community. Author Jason B. Rosenthal knows firsthand the life-long impacts of cancer. He lost his wife, Amy Krouse Rosenthal, to ...