Why Holidays Suck After Your Parent Dies. (And What You Can Do About It.)

You aren't alone in these feelings. Holidays just might suck after your parent dies for quite some time.

(support for living with grief)

(support for living with grief)

You aren't alone in these feelings. Holidays just might suck after your parent dies for quite some time.

When a loved one suffers a permanent injury or illness, it can be hard to navigate grief and loss when you are grieving for someone who is still alive.

What are you supposed to do when you are still grieving the loss of one parent and life threatens to take away the other? Let's talk about what grief does when you have one parent left.

You are not alone if you feel that functioning after your parent dies feels impossible...

Why is grieving the loss of a parent just so hard? The answer is the three ghosts of grief.

When I was smack in the middle of raw grief, a friend gave me one piece of information that completely changed the way I view death and dying. You need to know this too, if someone you love has died.

When does grief end? Grief is a long haul, and we are on this voyage whether we want to be or not...

Often times it is not simply that a loved one died, but also how they died that matters to us so much and continues to affect us long after they are gone. Your parent's last moments in life can greatly affect your grief and how you grieve.

I was absolutely unprepared for my mother to die. I felt like I had sprinted toward a wall, made impact at top speed, and crumpled to the ground. Losing a parent can change everything in your world. You pass through…

When someone important to you dies, there may come a time in grief in which you find that you don't quite recognize yourself.

Especially in the early days, the pain of grief can be constant. Even many years after losing your mom or dad, the pain can still be intense and at times unbearable. You just want it to stop. When my mom…

When one parent dies, we are forced to reckon with the relationship we have with the surviving parent. The parent who lived. Those with a close, loving, healthy relationship with both parents don’t need to worry about this as much.…

Just a few months after my mom died I was with another mom in the courtyard at school drop off, talking about how my world had stopped and my priorities had changed. I saw the world so differently with my…

When my mother died, it felt like the world was moving but I had stopped. Life was spinning around me as I stood still trying to make sense of what happened. My earliest, raw grief was filled with waves of…

When your mom or dad dies, your whole life changes.