I was living in a kind of betwixt and between, trying to balance caring for her, my young children, and my patients, while ...

Lizzie Duszynski-Goodman is a journalist living in the Midwest with her husband and two young children. Her work explores the intersection of mental health, wellness and parenting. She is the former ...

Losing a loved one can affect your mental and emotional health: here are ways to cope with grief, according to Harvard.

In September, my mom died after a short battle with colon cancer. She was 83 and lived a full life in which she had a fulfilling career in education, traveled the world visiting 100-plus countries, ...

When Kelly Edmonson’s son died, she was on a cruise ship. It was January 3, 2023, and Edmonson and her husband were ringing in the new year—their first as empty nesters—with a Caribbean vacation. She ...

Despite the universal nature of the grief experience, many people have the mistaken understanding that grief is a temporary feeling one “moves on” from. This type of thinking is pervasive in our ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. The holiday season, often considered a time of joy and togetherness, can ...

For people dealing with grief, the holidays may feel anything but merry. NPR's Michel Martin asks Michelle Palmer of the Wendt Center for Loss and Healing about navigating loss. It's holiday time, and ...

There’s no roadmap for navigating grief when you lose someone you care about. It’s a deeply painful and complicated process that we all handle in our own ways. It’s also an unavoidable part of life ...

Liz Simmons is an education staff writer at Forbes Advisor. She has written about higher education and career development for various online publications since 2016. She earned a master’s degree in ...

“There is so much grief in schools right now, from the loss of staff and family members,” a wellness expert at a California County Office of Education recently told me. “We can’t touch wellness until ...