Death is not required to experience the grief of losing a child. When an adult child cuts ties, the resulting estrangement leaves parents heartbroken and navigating a complicated pain. Because your child is still out there living their life, society often does not know how to validate your loss.

Watching someone you love decline is a distinct form of loss. Anticipatory grief is the emotional weight of mourning a person while they are still present.

When you lose something, a loved one or a job, it changes how you view your world and even yourself. That intersection of loss and identity feels like waking up in a house where the furniture has been rearranged.

Grief is a natural response to loss. Yet uncommon expressions of grief often catch people off guard, in themselves and in others. Most people expect to feel sad, and cry, or to withdraw.

Life is full of opportunities. Each day brings new adventures, new connections, and a blank page to create a new story.

Grief can be exceptionally tricky. You experience a loss of some type and then, from that moment on, your entire life can change overnight.

Grief is deeply personal and often unpredictable journey. One day you might be managing just fine, while the next you are thrown back into anger and depression. Here’s why grief comes in waves and how to cope.