by Michelle Meltzer | Feb 4, 2018 |
Life is a Gift: How to Enjoy It and Find Happiness After a Tragic Loss Sometimes a tragedy can give new energy to life and bring awareness we have been living on autopilot.I still remember the night like it was yesterday. It was late and my husband and I had just...
by Michelle Meltzer | Feb 4, 2018 |
Moving Forward Dealing with Grief Grieving the death of a loved one is an individual process. Some caregivers initially feel numb and disoriented, then endure pangs of yearning for the person who has died. Others feel anxious and have trouble sleeping, perhaps...
by Michelle Meltzer | Feb 4, 2018 |
How to Help a Friend Who Is Grieving Witnessing a loved one’s suffering often feels intolerable. That’s why it’s common to want to rush in and help when someone close to you is grieving. But many of us aren’t sure exactly what that entails. What do you say? What don’t...
by Michelle Meltzer | Feb 4, 2018 |
Getting Grief Right Mary was a successful accountant, a driven person who was unaccustomed to being weighed down by sorrow. She was also well versed in the so-called stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. To her and so many others in...
by Michelle Meltzer | Feb 4, 2018 |
What Doctors Don’t Learn About Death and Dying I learned about a lot of things in medical school, but mortality wasn’t one of them. I was given a dry, leathery corpse to dissect in my first term — but that was solely a way to learn about human anatomy. Our textbooks...
