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 [...]
Grief support groups are without a doubt the single most effective healing mechanism available to people who are grieving, but how do you evaluate the people running a group? I suspect that many people don’t seek out grief support, because they have no idea how to evaluate the expertise of the facilitators. As comforting as [...]
Yesterday, I was slamming memoirs as being irrelevant to helping other people grieve, but personal experience with loss does matter. I believe that in order to work effectively with people who are grieving, you do need to have experienced grief…but you also need to have completed the grieving process. When I went back to graduate [...]
