Schools should be ideal places for children who have faced trauma to process their experiences. Yet too often, school systems ...
The July 4, 2025, floods in Kerr County, Texas, swept away children and entire families, leaving horror in their wake. Days later, flash floods struck Ruidoso, New Mexico, killing three people, ...
Struggling to see the light after a traumatic experience? A psychologist explains the stages of grief and offers 8 practical ...
Meghan Riordan Jarvis is no stranger to trauma, but until 2019, her familiarity with it was rooted in the work she had done with clients over the course of two decades as a therapist. Then, trauma ...
One morning 20 years ago, my brother died unexpectedly. He was 37 years old, healthy, married with two kids. I was a trauma veteran already at that point, living with full-fledged PTSD symptoms from ...
Amaya, 7, squats with her brother Eli, 5, and their parents Lisa and Stephen Austria during a vigil at Lynnhurst Park in Minneapolis to mourn the victims of a mass shooting that took place earlier in ...
Meghan Riordan Jarvis, who specializes in grief and loss, shares her favorite books for different kinds of grief, for readers of all ages I grew up in a house filled with books and book-lovers. My ...
For much of the early twentieth century, grief was framed as a process of detachment. Healing meant “letting go,” “moving on, ...
May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and there are local resources that can help children, teens and young adults heal. There's a free grief and trauma program at Holy Cross Hospital, located at 2701 ...
Ashley Judd recently opened up about her experiences with grief. She explained how she had to first heal her childhood trauma to grieve for her mother, Naomi Judd. Speaking with Anderson Cooper on his ...
For many of us, pets are more than just animals. They are family. So, when a beloved pet dies, the grief can feel ...