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.
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,
Why I Write About Grief
I write about grief and people ask me if I am a psychologist because of the subject matter that I write about. I am not a psychologist. I am a writer. But psychology and why people act the way they do
Teenage Pregnancy
You may know a teenage girl who has given birth, or a teen boy who has fathered a child. I do. I knew a girl who got pregnant in high school
Where do writers get ideas?
Know where to look. Where do writers get their ideas? Getting ideas is easy if you know where to look. The first place to look
Writing Bullets & Babies
Writing Bullets & Babies was a challenging book to write for several reasons. The first is two years of research material to organize into the right chronological order. Verification
Chanel No. 5: Bringing Wife’s Memory Alive
Chanel No. 5. It is a perfume name that I know. I can't recall what it smells likes, yet I was married to a woman who wore it. I can recall the woman: her smile, her laugh, her facial expressions, and the way she
