by Michelle Meltzer | Feb 4, 2018 |
Confessions of a Depressed Comic Kevin Breel didn’t look like a depressed kid: team captain, at every party, funny and confident. But he tells the story of the night he realized that — to save his own life — he needed to say four simple...
by Michelle Meltzer | Feb 4, 2018 |
Expanding Your Circle of Compassion It’s hard to always show compassion — even to the people we love, but Robert Thurman asks that we develop compassion for our enemies. He prescribes a seven-step meditation exercise to extend compassion beyond our inner...
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...
