After the tragic death of my first dog, I vowed to never love one again. Until......
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There are some kinds of pain which must be navigated in order to be our best selves....
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Grief & Coping |
July 31, 2017
How My Dad’s Brush With Death Taught This Atheist To Appreciate Prayer
You don't have to believe in prayer to accept prayers....
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Meghan O'Rourke uses her memoir, The Long Goodbye, as an elegy to immortalize her deceased mother....
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The recent terror attack on London reminds the author of the deeply emotional bond she has to England....
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Technology is often overlooked as a tool to bring people together for emotional support....
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I foolishly thought burying my almost 91-year old father would have been easier than what my siblings and I went through in saying goodbye to my mother who died prematurely at the age of 68, five years ago. After all, my mother was supposed to live long enough to see my still small children grow, become Bar/Bat Mitzvah, graduate and perhaps, get married. No, she died at an age which nowadays is considered young. Her loss was devastating. It took a lot of time and work to integrate her death into my......
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Have you ever picked up a book knowing that its arrival in your life at precisely this moment was a gift? That was my sense when I held Jay Michaelson’s The Gate of Tears, subtitled “Sadness and the Spiritual Path.” As I delved into the book (out this month in paperback), that sense only deepened. “Joy and sadness are not opposites,” Michaelson writes. “Sometimes, they coexist, like two consonant notes of a complex yet harmonious chord.” And he observes: “At our contemporary moment, the ordinary sadness that is part of a life......
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