Meredith Wilson Parfet wants to reshape the way Americans approach tragedy.

A decade later, she spoke to me about her grief in metaphors, as something ongoing rather than completed, a process that had shifted shape over time but had not ended. Ella’s experience is not unusual ...

When someone we love dies, we have a funeral. The loss is clear and clean—while the relationship might have been complex, the loss of the person is not. We will never see, hear, or speak with them ...

Grief wears many faces. It can come from the death of a loved one, the end of a friendship, the loss of a beloved pet or the loss of something far less tangible but no less significant: a career, a ...

Grief is never easy, but it’s different for everyone. It comes in many forms and follows stages that look a little different ...