May is Mental Health Awareness Month and Mental Health America and Good Grief want us to take time to look around and look within in an effort to protect and improve and maintain our mental health. What you will read over the course of the next three Good Grief blogs …
May is Mental Health Awareness Month and Mental Health America and Good Grief want us to take time to look around and look within in an effort to protect and improve and maintain our mental health. Good Grief volunteer Jonathan Mathew knows grief on a very personal level. He lost …
May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and we can all learn a lesson about mental health from the wisdom of author and naturalist, John Burroughs (1837-1921). Burroughs wrote in his book, Studies in Nature and Literature, “I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses …
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By Rebecca Soffer I’ll never forget the very first moment of the very first party I attended after my mom was killed in a car accident. I was 30 and a single New Yorker, and after a few months of avoiding large, raucous social gatherings – I’d been in such …
March is Women’s History Month, and the theme for 2023 is celebrating women who tell our stories. In this three part blog series, we will highlight stories told by women about grief across different mediums. Part 1: Film Storytelling happens in many spaces and many places. We find stories in …
March is Women’s History Month, and the theme for 2023 is celebrating women who tell our stories. In this three part blog series, we will highlight stories told by women about grief across different mediums. Part 2: Written Word If you’re not ready for movies on grief, women have written …
March is Women’s History Month, and the theme for 2023 is celebrating women who tell our stories. In this three part blog series, we will highlight stories told by women about grief across different mediums. Part 3: Visual Arts Grief can be seen in the work of visual artist Kaethe …
Black History Month Blog – Understanding your grief, and the grief of others Part 1 of 3 In honor of Black History Month, this blog series sets out to provide a high-level understanding of the unique grief experiences faced by Black communities in the US. This series serves to give …
Black History Month Blog – Understanding your grief, and the grief of others Part 2 of 3 This blog sets out to provide a high-level, introductory understanding of the unique grief experiences faced by Black communities in the US. To begin to understand Black grief, we will explore Collective Grief …
