You are Going to be Okay
Grieving is a messy business. It is complicated and emotionally agonizing, but it is going to be okay.
Processing Grief for Mental Health
When you're grieving, it's important to check in on your mental health, look out for warning signs, and build up your resilience. Guest writer Jessica Liria, from the David Lawrence Centers for Behavioral Health, shares tips on how to do this.
Grief: Recognizing Where We Are
When I was grieving, I felt my world had stopped. My biggest adjustment was knowing that the world wouldn’t stop for me. It doesn’t stop for anyone who has lost a loved one. If you want to get back to your life, you must make changes and move along with it.
Independent Press Award – Distinguished Favorite: Grief
Independent Press Award Winner Richard Ballo's most recent
Raising Bereaved Kids
Video interview of Richard Ballo by Open to Hope on the topic of raising bereaved kids.
Celebrating Mother’s Day After Loss
Mother’s Day recalls all things maternal – warm and wonderful hugs, children’s homemade cards, a delicious dinner, mom’s loving kisses and smiles. But Mother’s Day can be extremely challenging for children who have lost a mother.
Getting Through the Holidays After a Loss
The holidays are not necessarily a happy, merry time – especially for people whose loved one had died or left them during the past year, or even the past several years. In fact,
Thoughts from Dad by Neapolitan Family
I write about healing to help people who are left to grieve and remember their loved ones.
Higher Education
By Richard Ballo Florida Gulf Coast University, November 12,
Finding New Uses for Helicopters
By Richard Ballo Montachusett Review, May 3, 1989 First,