How to Survive Your Grief

REPOSTED ON GRIEF HEALS I am rapidly coming to the conclusion that the study of grief is best left to the poets and mystics among us. Grief has more in common with love than with any diagnosable disorder. With every attempt to define grief with symptoms and timelines, we end up diminishing our understanding of [...]

Last week I read two books I found rather appalling. Though supposedly about grief, neither of these books will be of any help whatsoever to people who are actually grieving. In fact they will likely do more harm than good. Though The Other Side of Sadness: What the New Science of Bereavement Tells Us About [...]