Grief & Life Transitions
Articles on grief and life transitions
Reading for the seasons that rearrange things: a death, a diagnosis, a move, a marriage that ended, a role that is over. Grief rarely follows a tidy order, and it helps to hear that from someone who has sat with it for years.
Articles in this topic
Grief after losing a parent
Why this loss reaches into identity, family roles and everyday life, and what tends to help.
Grief that has no funeral
For losses that carry no ritual: infertility, estrangement, a diagnosis, a dream that ended.
What the first year of grief is like
Anniversaries, holidays, the month the casseroles stop, and why month four is often harder than week one.
Divorce and starting over
For women grieving a marriage while managing logistics, children, faith questions and other people's opinions.
The empty nest and what comes next
For mothers facing a quiet house, a changed role and the question of what she wants now.
When grief unsettles your faith
For women who prayed and are now grieving, and are unsure what to do with the questions that followed.
Carrying grief at work and in public
Practical ways to get through workdays, small talk and unexpected questions while you are grieving.
When a friendship ends
For the quiet grief of a close friendship that faded, ended or turned painful.
Moving, and losing the community you had
For women who moved for good reasons and are lonelier than they expected to be.
Caring for an aging parent
For daughters managing appointments, siblings, guilt and anticipatory grief all at once.
Grief that does not follow the stages
Why grief rarely moves in a tidy order, and what helps when it comes back on a day you thought you were fine.
If this is what you are living with right now, you can also read how Lori works with it in counseling: grief & life transitions. Or browse all of Lori's articles.
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