Guest Blog DISPELLING THE MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT SUICIDE AND GRIEF AND MOURNING by Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D Misconception: A misconception is a mistaken notion you might have about something – in other words, something you believe to be true but that is not true. Misconceptions about grief are common in our society because we tend to […]

Don’t you just love the little girl at the end of the video!  Despite all the attempts by the school photographer to remove her smile, she stays focused on the job at hand—to smile.  Simple, really.  Just keep smiling. Yet, amid all the distractions around us it tends to be hard for us to do […]

Grief is overflowing love for a person no longer physically present in our lives. Therefore, to stop grieving over a person is to stop loving him or her. As one widow in a grief support group asked me, “You mean I don’t have to leave my husband in the past? Are you saying that I […]