Posts from February 2025

What Is Life Like After Two Years Of Grief?

February 20, 2025
Evelyn Pechter, Psy.D.
Grief, Healing

It’s a common question: What is life like after two years of grief?

This question is similar to questions you might have asked earlier. What happens during the first year? What happens after one year of grief? What happens during the second year? These are markers of time, yet grief does not always know what time it is.

Loneliness Won’t Leave Me Alone

February 19, 2025
Tom Otero
First Person

As an experienced traveler in this journey of grief, I have many unwelcome visitors: doubt, fear, sorrow, remorse, anger and guilt, to name a few. But the one visitor that seems to plague me the most, the one that has been the most successful in binding me up, the one that has been the most tenacious and unwelcome, is loneliness.

Our Stories Become Our Lives

February 19, 2025
Lynne Goldklang, LMFT
Grief

Stories have always been part of our lives. There are the fairy tales from childhood with so many different versions. People of all ages have sat around a campfire sharing stories. We listen to the news easily overwhelmed by “spin” as we try to make sense of endless commentary.

We are story tellers with a running dialogue about what happened, how we are doing and our concerns for the future. Our stories become part of our ongoing self-talk that impacts the quality of our lives. Notice the ways you relate to any of the following themes following a death of a partner. Notice the quotes from others who have gone through a deep loss.