Contributions by Stephanie Frogge

Pets not only provide companionship, but have positive physical and psychological impacts on our healing from grief.

Scientific evidence suggests a link between therapeutic writing and the successful management of traumatic experiences. Read tips to get started.

For some bereaved, volunteering is a valued component of the healing journey and provides physical and mental health, social and financial benefits.

TAPS survivors who know first-hand what it’s like share ideas for managing the holidays in the midst of acute grief.

Finding a mental health professional takes some work. This guide may help.

Telling our story, whether to educate, vent or simply recall the memory of our loved one, can make us vulnerable. We run the risk of being deeply hurt.

Survivor mom, Betsy Beard shares the "normal" part of the fog of grief and how to deal with it in a positive light so you can eventually move on.

Both siblings began experiencing problems when they reached the age their sibling had been when he died.

The pain of loss is in direct correlation with the love we feel. The more we love, the more keenly we feel the absence of that which we love.

Keeping a diary or writing a letter that no one but you will ever read can have a significant positive impact on the healing journey.

The pain effectively keeps us focused on ourselves and the unique relationship we had with the person who is now gone forever from our earthly lives.