"True empathy is always free of any evaluative or diagnostic quality" - Carl Rogers Yes, this time, the psychiatric system has gone too...

I fell in love 20 days ago. Hard love. With a baby goat. Those who know me aren't surprised by that. I gave up eating animals in 1972...

Dear Grievers, There are those who do not know and who cannot know this deep pain. They are afraid of it. They may tell you to ‘move on’....

Dear Grieving One, Treat grief, welcome her as you would a cherished friend, one who keeps your secrets and stays up all night with you,...

The day, soon, will come when  most will resume life as normal. They will eat their morning cereal and glance at headlines, they will...

We are very focused on 'mental health' in today's world. People are lonely. People feel disconnected. Many feel unsupported from within...

I've been thinking a lot about some recent client stories: a grieving mother urged by her family to "move on" after the death of her only...

One of the most common things I hear about grief is how lonely it feels. Just today, again, I received an email signed this way: "Alone....

In honor of grieving dads, we offer these thoughts from bereaved dad of Corey and our client, David Van Hook. Thank you for sharing this...

Tomorrow, July 27, is the longest lunar eclipse, a blood moon, of the century. As humans have done for thousands of years, many are...

For 23 years, I’ve been counseling grieving families. I don’t know why I’m continually shocked by the lack of tenderness in the world...

Art by Hannah Lotz, sister of Tyler Lotz, always loved and always missed There are different kinds of people with whom we come into...

This is the day. Mother's Day. It is a day for all mothers, but mostly, Mother's Day was originally intended to honor a special mother: a...

Within light, there is darkness; but do not try to understand that darkness.Within darkness, there is light; but do not look for that...

I was raised by a Jehovah's Witness elder. My family converted from Catholicism when I was just three. Being a JW was all I ever knew....

Just yesterday, I had a memory flash from 1994. Neighbors who I’d never met came to my house after Cheyenne (my newborn daughter) died....

23 years ago tomorrow, in a cold, sterile hospital room, she died. I died. And I left her there with the white coated men who would turn...

Last night, a grieving person shared that he’s being “pushed toward closure” by others. Another young man whose brother died more than...

We live in a world that sends us wrong minded messages: That we are entitled to "be happy" all the time and that we should rarely, if...

My heart shattered, broken into millions of pieces, The day you died. And because there was nothing else to do, I let those shattered...