5 minHelping Children with Funeralsby Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D. The Adult as Role Model and Helper A child you care about is grieving. If you, too, loved the person who died,...
4 minHelping Children Cope With Griefby Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D. When Someone Loved Dies Adults grieve. So do children. As an adult or child, experiencing grief means to...
7 minHelping Infants and Toddlers Cope with Griefby Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D. When Someone a Baby Loves Dies When someone a baby loves dies, knowing what to say or do can be difficult. How...
5 minFinding the Right Words: Guidelines on how to talk to grieving children about deathby Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D. Through the years I have learned a great deal from many grieving children and their families. They have taught...
4 minWhen Your Soulmate Diesby Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D. Grief is everything we think and feel inside after someone or something we care about is taken away from us....
7 minEmbracing the Sadness of Griefby Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D. “In every heart there is an inner room, where we can hold our greatest treasures and our deepest pain.” —...
5 minHealing Your Grief About Getting Olderby Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D. “Wish not so much to live long, but to live well.” — Benjamin Franklin A simple truth is that from the day we...
3 minHelping Yourself Heal During the Holiday Seasonby Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D. Holidays are often difficult for anyone who has experienced the death of someone loved. Rather than being times...
7 minHelping Yourself Heal When a Baby Diesby Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D. Your baby has died. You are now faced with the difficult, but important, need to mourn. Mourning is the open...
6 minHelping Yourself Heal When Your Parent Diesby Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D. Your mother or father has died. Whether you had a good, bad or indifferent relationship with the parent who...
5 minHelping Yourself Heal When Your Child Diesby Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D. Allow Yourself to Mourn Your child has died. You are now faced with the difficult, but important, need to...
6 minHelping Yourself Heal When Your Spouse Diesby Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D. Few events in life are as painful as the death of your spouse. You may be uncertain you will survive this...
4 minWill I Befriend My Feelings Or Will I Deny, Repress, Or Inhibit Them?by Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D. “I don’t have to go in search of the pain of grief—it finds me. It’s when I deny or insulate myself from the...
4 minHelping Yourself Heal When Someone Loved Diesby Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D. Someone You Love Has Died You are now faced with the difficult, but important, need to mourn. Mourning is the...
5 minLove and Grief:In Communion and Greater Than the Sum of Their Partsby Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D. “We are all mirrors unto one another. Look into me and you will find something of yourself as I will of you.” —...
6 minMustering the Courage to Mournby Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D. “Whatever you do, you need courage.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Loss brings uninvited pain into our lives. In...
6 minHelping Yourself Heal When an Adult Sibling Diesby Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D. “To the outside world we all grow old. But not to brothers and sisters. We know each other as we always were. ...
5 minHelping Your Family Heal After Stillbirthby Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D. Few events in life bring about such warm and wonderful feelings of anticipation as the announcement of a...
8 minYou Must Go Backward Before You Can Go Forwardby Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D. A paradox is a seemingly self-contradictory statement or situation that is in fact often true. The paradox of...
7 minYou Must Make Friends with the Darkness Before You Can Enter the Lightby Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D. A paradox is a seemingly self-contradictory statement or situation that is in fact often true. The paradox of...