It's a blessing not to be alone in your grief but it's also painful to see your parents and siblings in pain.

Faith does help mourners survive their loss, some studies suggest; but I imagine one still struggles.

There is no single way of grieving. But research suggests that there are some broad similarities among grievers.

There are many kinds of loss embedded in a loss - the loss of the person, and the loss of the self you got to be with that person. And the seeming loss of the past, which now feels forever out of reach.

My whole life, I had been taught to read and study, to seek understanding in knowledge of history, of cultures.

A mother is beyond any notion of a beginning. That's what makes her a mother.

I have seen that grief can be very different for different people. While the range of emotions experienced is similar, the way we deal with those emotions isn't, necessarily.