If you find yourself swimming across an ocean of grief, and you’re too tired to keep swimming, just float. Gratitude Focus: We can be thankful that we don’t have…

It was years after my son’s death. I was functioning pretty well by then. I was happy to be alive, enjoying my life. But then one of those grief…

Some cultures mandate a formal time of grief for people. I think we should wear big badges when we’re grieving that say “Fragile. Heart under construction. Handle with care.”…

Few of us like to feel sad or cry. Grief can be tricky. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross identified the five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Those words…

We don’t do grief. Grief does us. Application: Don’t worry about when this value applies. When it’s time to heal our heart from a loss, we’ll know. Don’t be…

“The strangest thing happened,” said my friend, a lovably neurotic, very obsessive businessman in his midforties. “I was watching one of those afternoon TV talk shows. This one was…

We hear a lot about becoming whole. “Become a complete human being.” “Start on the pathway to becoming whole.” “You won’t find romantic love until you know you’re complete.”…

Guests come and go at the Blue Sky Lodge. Sometimes a sky diver comes to the drop zone for the weekend from a nearby town and needs a place…

I got up and checked the calendar. The car had to go in for servicing. I hated driving it in, getting someone to follow me, then standing in line…