Someone you love has died. You are now faced with the difficult, but important, need to mourn. Mourning is the open expression of your thoughts and feelings regarding the death and the person who died. It is an essential part of healing. The following articles provide many practical suggestions to help you move toward healing in your unique grief journey.

• Too Much Loss: Grief Overload and Its Causes
• The Grief of Dementia Care Partners
• First Aid for Broken Hearts
• Why Choose A Final Resting Place for Your Loved One
• What’s Your Love Language
• Teeter-Totter of Resilience and Vulnerability in Grief
• You Must Say Hello Before You Say Goodbye
• You Must Make Friends with the Darkness Before You Can Enter the Light
• You Must Go Backward Before You Can Go Forward
• Mustering the Courage to Mourn
• Love and Grief: In Communion and Greater Than the Sum of Their Parts
• Will I Befriend My Feelings Or Will I Deny Them
• Will I Grieve or Will I Mourn
• Helping Yourself Heal When Someone Dies
• Helping Yourself Heal When Your Child Dies
• Helping Yourself Heal When Your Spouse Dies
• Helping Yourself Heal When a Parent Dies
• Helping Yourself When a Baby Dies
• Helping Yourself Heal During the Holiday Season
• Helping Dispel 5 Common Myths About Grief
• Helping Yourself Live When You Are Seriously Ill
• Helping Yourself Live When You Are Dying
• Exploring the Uniqueness of Your Suicide Grief
• Healing Your Traumatized Heart: Seeking Safety, Understanding, and Peace Part 1
• Healing Your Traumatized Heart: Seeking Safety, Understanding, and Peace Part 2
• Healing Your Grieving Body: Physical Practices for Mourners
• The Spiritual Path to Healing: An Introduction
• The Spiritual Path to Healing: Mourning Ideas, Part 1
• The Spiritual Path to Healing: Mourning Ideas, Part 2
• The Spiritual Path to Healing: Mourning Ideas, Part 3
• The Spiritual Path to Healing: Mourning Ideas, Part 4
• Dispelling the Misconceptions About Suicide and Grief and Mourning
• The Capacity to Love Requires the Neccesity to Mourn
• Helping Yourself Heal When an Adult Sibling Dies
• Helping Your Family Heal After Stillbirth
• Healing Your Grief About Getting Older
• Embracing the Sadness of Grief
• Helping a Friend or Family Member After a Cancer Diagnosis
• When Your Soulmate Dies

Children and teenagers have special needs following the death of a friend or family member. The following articles provide wonderful insight in helping children and teens understand and express their grief.

• Helping Children Cope with Grief
• Helping Teenagers Cope with Grief
• Helping Infants and Toddlers When Someone They Love Dies
• Helping Children with Funerals
• Helping Children Understand Cremation
• Helping a Child Who is Seriously Ill
• Helping a Child Who is Dying
• Helping Grieving Children at School
• Helping Bereaved Siblings Heal
• Finding the Right Words: Guidelines on how to talk to grieving children about death

A friend has experienced the death of someone loved. How can you help? The following articles provide many practical suggestions for helping others with grief:

• The Misconception of the Funeral as a Rite of Closure
• Helping a Friend in Grief
• Helping a Man Who is Grieving
• Helping a Friend Who is Dying
• Helping a Friend Who is Seriously Ill
• Helping a Suicide Survivor Heal
• Helping a Homicide Survivor Heal
• Helping a Grandparent Who Is Grieving
• Helping a Grieving Friend in the Workplace
• Helping AIDS Survivors Heal
• Helping SIDS Survivors Heal
• Helping Your Family When a Member is Dying
• Helping Your Family When a Member is Seriously Ill
• Helping Your Family Cope When a Pet Dies
• Helping Your Family Decide if Organ and Tissue Donation is Right for You
• Helping a Friend or Family Member After a Cancer Diagnosis
• Helping Your Family Heal After Miscarriage
• Helping Yourself Heal When Someone You Care About Dies of a Drug Overdose