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Helping yourself and others cope with the grief during the holiday season

How to Survive the Holiday Season

We just had Thanksgiving, marking the unofficial start of the holiday season. The holiday season, while full of merriment and twinkle lights, can also be a complicated emotional time for many, bringing challenges like loneliness during the holidays. If you need extra help coping with the ups and downs of this time of year, we’ve […]

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Teen Grief Counseling: What to Expect

Teen Grief Counseling: What to Expect

What is navigating grief like as a child or teen? Managing grief and loss is hard enough at any age, but as a child or teen, it can be even harder—there’s no life context for these big feelings, and there hasn’t been enough time or experience to practice navigating this type of vulnerability and loss. […]

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The Benefits of Joining a Grief Support Group

Grief is a deeply personal and often intense experience. It can make us withdraw from our loved ones, from our regular routines, from our hobbies, and even sometimes from ourselves. This isolation, while temporarily comforting or numbing, can make managing and navigating our grief even more burdensome. But grief doesn’t have to be endured alone. […]

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Unpacking Grief And Disability

Unpacking Grief and Disability

Did you know that July is Disability Pride Month? Let’s talk about grief and disability. Disability Pride Month celebrates the anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), signed into law on July 26th, 1990. This law was designed to add legal protections against discrimination for disabled people as well as designate requirements for reasonable […]

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Breaking the Stigma: 5 Blogs to Better Understand Suicide

Breaking the Stigma: 5 Blogs to Better Understand Suicide

Suicide is a difficult subject to talk about, which makes it a difficult subject to fully understand. Because of this, there are a lot of myths and misconceptions about suicide that can actually harm our understanding of what it means to be suicidal, struggle with suicidal ideation, or how to be a support to someone […]

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Grieving Small Losses

When we think about grief, we tend to associate the emotion with the death of a loved one or the end of a serious relationship. Overwhelming feelings of grief are often brought on by significant losses, but they can be triggered by small losses as well, like moving away from home or losing a connection […]

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5 Common Myths About Suicide That You Should Know

There’s a lot of misinformation out in the world about suicide. One thing we’ve come to learn at Grief Recovery Center is suicide is something that many people don’t like to think or talk about, but avoiding the topic can actually lead to harm. Suicide is incredibly stigmatized, even as our cultural understanding of mental […]

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5 Tips for Coping With Mother’s Day Grief

Like all holidays, Mother’s Day can bring up complicated feelings. For some people, Mother’s Day is a day set aside to celebrate the moms in their life, and for others it is a painful reminder of grief. It can be difficult for people with positive relationships with their mothers to understand the complicated feelings that […]

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How to Deal With Grief on Valentine’s Day

February is a month that is heavy on emotion. Even though it’s a quick month, Valentine’s Day tends to overshadow the rest of it, because it seems like it’s everywhere. It’s on TV, in movies, plastered over social media, and even in the news. For many people, Valentine’s Day can be a mixed bag. A […]

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What Causes Inner Child Grief?

When was the last time you paid attention to your inner child? Picture yourself like a Russian nesting doll. Your present self, at the age you are now, is the largest outer toy. Since we can only see the outside, we assume each of us are showing up in the world only as our present […]

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