Reflections

A friend asked me today “What has been the hardest adjustment following Susie’s death?”  I appreciated the question for a number of reasons. First, it showed a willingness to walk in the darkness with me for a few moments, a willingness to understand at a deeper level what our experience has been like. But, secondly, …

What is grief? What is grief?  There are a number of helpful definitions out there for grief.  For me, though, grief is a state of being you enter when you experience a soul-altering loss. Psychology would probably want to replace the word “soul” here with something more medically grounded. But in my experience, and I …