Sophia Dembling

Personal Perspective: With age and with loss, parts of our identity drop away, and we enter a new season of life, whether we want to or not.

Parents and children can learn to grieve their loss together. These tips can help.

Parents and children can learn to grieve their loss together. These tips can help.

Parents and children can learn to grieve their loss together.

Parents and children can learn to grieve their loss together. These tips can help.

A Personal Perspective: The early pain is unbearable but your brain protects you from the memory.

A Personal Perspective: Once the worst pain of grief passes, it can be hard to remember what it felt like.

A Personal Perspective: The early pain is unbearable but your brain protects you from the memory.

A Personal Perspective: Once the worst pain of grief passes, it can be hard to remember what it felt like.

A Personal Perspective: The early pain is unbearable but your brain protects you from the memory.

A Personal Perspective: Once the worst pain of grief passes, it can be hard to remember what it felt like.

A Personal Perspective: The early pain is unbearable but your brain protects you from the memory.

Personal Perspective: Some things don't get much easier, so the best we can do is just accept that they are hard.

Personal Perspective: Some things don't get much easier, so the best we can do is just accept that they are hard.

Personal Perspective: Some things don't get much easier, so the best we can do is just accept that they are hard.

Personal Perspective: Some things don't get much easier, so the best we can do is just accept that they are hard.

Personal Perspective: Some things don't get much easier, so the best we can do is just accept that they are hard.

Personal Perspective: My personal stages of grief are a little different from Kubler-Ross’s, and I suspect there will be more than five when all’s said and done.

A Personal Perspective: To survive the holidays, while grieving my spouse, I needed to invent traditions for myself.

A Personal Perspective: As grief matures, the questions in widowhood grow more complex as we must (reluctantly) write the next chapter in our lives.