When someone we care about experiences a significant loss, our natural instinct is to help ease their pain. Yet many of us freeze, uncertain what to say or do, fearful of making their suffering worse.

You fought to hold on to the relationship to the point of being all-consumed. You don’t want to believe it’s actually ending. You can’t believe it. Even if the relationship was awful, even unbearable ...

When we lose someone close to us, we often say we have a broken heart: But what if that’s not just a metaphor? In her new book, The Grieving Body: How The Stress of Loss Can Be An Opportunity For ...