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6 Ways To Use Music When You’re Mourning

There are a number of healthy and helpful ways to process loss and grief. Traditional avenues might look like support groups, counseling, or journaling. There are also less expected ways to grieve, which are equally valid– like expressing yourself through creative projects, tuning into a heart-warming podcast, or using music as a tool for our…

10 Grief Podcasts To Tune Into

When going through something as life-changing as loss, it can be helpful to remain open to all available resources to help find the comfort, community, and validation needed to move through your grief and toward healing. You might look to a support group, a creative project, a good book, a trusted friend, a counselor, or…

8 Creative Ways To Process Your Grief

There are many different ways to process grief. While there are plenty of conventional and traditional coping mechanisms, there is no one “right” way, and you can use whatever feels right for you and your journey. Whether you consider yourself a particularly “creative” person or not, you may find that processing your grief through a…

Mourning Your Former Self: What Happens When You Become A New You

Your transition journey may lead you to a physical, social, or spiritual transition, or some combination thereof. Whatever ‘transition’ looks like for you, you have made the difficult decision to pursue and embrace yourself authentically, and that is incredible. Of course, moving toward a more authentic version of yourself outwardly, inwardly, or both necessitates leaving…

Collective Healing Through Understanding And Compassion

When a community experiences losses together, we call it “collective grief.” And we can move through collective grief together when we lean on each other for support. With the ongoing pandemic, climate crisis, and a recent increase in suicides and mass shootings, that “community experiencing loss” includes just about everyone in the world. This unity…

How World Events Can Contribute To Individual Grief

Although we tend to think of “grief” as an isolated response to a single event, it may be more accurate to say that it’s a constant thread that weaves through the fabric of our lives. There are seasons of life where the thread is more noticeable, such as after the death of a loved one. Yet…