According to mental health pros, it can be both.

This is part 1 in a series on Grief and COVID-19. Part 2 is here. Part 3 is here. Part 4 is here. This post was written by Betsy Gard, Ph.D. Three years ago, on a sunny October Sunday morning, my ...

Realizing that your marriage has come to an end is one of the most challenging things a couple can experience. Everyone who signs up for marriage goes in thinking that this is their person — the one ...

How do we mourn what we’ve lost? To the Ancient Greeks, the answer lay in elegy. Derived from the Greek word “elegos,” meaning a song of lament, elegy was a form of poetry to commemorate the loss of a ...

Grief is the intense pain that follows a profound loss. Grieving is an unavoidable, painful, and profound reaction and process in the aftermath of the loss of someone or something deeply meaningful ...

Allison De Paoli was sleeping about eight to 10 hours a night, but the founder of Altique Consulting couldn't figure out why she was tired all the time. Deep in the throes of a grieving process from ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. McGill Desautels Faculty professor covering leadership and strategy. When Paul Simard calls grief “a gift,” he means it in the ...

Death salons are spaces that allow free-flowing conversations about mortality and are becoming more popular around the country ...

Death, of course, is a part of life, but what happens when a beloved relative dies and grief is so overwhelming that it's nearly impossible to concentrate on work? When someone suffers a massive loss ...

The 19th-century spiritualist movement promised contact with the dead. Today’s AI grief tech is reviving that promise in unsettling new ways.

When I was a school social worker, a teary-eyed father once came to the school to tell his 4-year-old daughter’s teacher that the child’s mother had been in an accident. He did not speak to his child ...