When you live with and care for someone who has a severe injury, chronic pain, or chronic health conditions, the everyday normalities of your life can look quite different than those of everyone else. For example, the amount of time one spends in the hospital.

This is Part 2 of a two-part post on common myths and misconceptions about how children grieve.

This is Part 1 of a two-part post on common myths and misconceptions about how children grieve.

In honour of Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day, here are 10 myths and misconceptions about pregnancy loss.

Research suggests that grieving styles exist on a continuum, and we tend to be either intuitive or instrumental grievers. Sometimes, our grieving style can be categorized as blended or dissonant.

Research suggests that grieving styles exist on a continuum, and we tend to be either intuitive or instrumental grievers.

The death of someone close to us is a primary loss, but with it comes a number of other losses resulting from that death. These are called secondary losses.

Grief literacy is “knowledge to facilitate understanding of grief and loss, skills to enable supportive action, and values of compassion and care.”

Even if you know nothing else about grief, you probably know the name Elisabeth Kübler-Ross. Even if you don’t know her name, you almost certainly know her work, as she created the five stages of grief.

A Death Salon is a gatherings of intellectuals that “encourages conversations on mortality and mourning and their resonating effects on our culture and history.”

Grief is much more than one emotion. Read this post to learn about some of the other common grief reactions and emotions.

Death Over Dinner events are trying to address the disconnect between the universality of death and society’s discomfort in discussing it.

Advance Care Plans (ACPs) are not just for the elderly. Read on to find out why all adults should have on in place.

Death Literacy is the practical know-how needed to plan well for end of life.

One gift we can give to a griever is to ask for and then use their person’s name. It honours not only the deceased person but also their grieving loved one.

There are many common phrases that we naturally reach for when we learn that someone has died. However, more often than not these statements—meant with sincere intentions—often minimize someone’s experience and can make them feel worse.

Death Cafés provide an opportunity for people to gather and talk about issues related to death.