Healing for Grief and Loss

Healing for Grief and Loss The H.E.A.L.I.N.G. program works with individuals, groups, schools, agencies and organizations to validate, normalize and educate their process through grief.

01/22/2026

As a grief therapist, I hear how much pressure people feel to say the right thing.

But grief doesn’t need fixing or matching stories.

Presence often communicates more care than words ever could.

Grief doesn’t just take someone or something from your life. It asks you to meet yourself again, differently.If you feel...
01/20/2026

Grief doesn’t just take someone or something from your life.

It asks you to meet yourself again, differently.

If you feel unfamiliar to yourself right now, you’re not broken.

You’re in transition.

Be gentle with who you are becoming.

01/15/2026

Some people need to talk, and others need quiet.

Some need space, and some need company.

If your grief doesn’t look like someone else’s, that doesn’t mean you’re doing it wrong.

It means you’re doing it your way.

And that matters.

01/13/2026

We’re often taught that grief should follow a sequence.

That it should move forward, reach an endpoint, or lead to “closure.”

But grief doesn’t work that way.

It isn’t linear or time-bound, and it isn’t a problem to solve.

When we stop trying to fix grief, we create space to understand it, and ourselves, with more compassion.

Not everything that hurts needs an answer.

Some things need room.

There’s nothing wrong with how your grief shows up. It’s simply following the depth of the relationship, not the calenda...
01/08/2026

There’s nothing wrong with how your grief shows up.
It’s simply following the depth of the relationship, not the calendar.

Grief doesn’t always announce itself. Sometimes it shows up as frustration, comparison, or self-doubt. Especially when ...
01/06/2026

Grief doesn’t always announce itself.

Sometimes it shows up as frustration, comparison, or self-doubt.

Especially when the loss wasn’t obvious or acknowledged.

As a grief therapist, I see this often.

Not because something is wrong with someone, but because something meaningful was lost.

Naming it as grief doesn’t make it disappear.

It simply gives us a way to meet it with more understanding and less judgment.

12/30/2025

Grief drains you in ways most people will never understand.
Your body feels it. Your mind feels it. Your spirit feels it.
Rest isn’t weakness, it’s repair.
It’s the quiet work your heart does to keep going.
If you’re tired, there’s a reason.
And you’re allowed to stop for a minute.

As someone who does talk therapy for a living, I’ll be the first to say: not everyone processes grief by talking. And no...
12/25/2025

As someone who does talk therapy for a living, I’ll be the first to say: not everyone processes grief by talking.
And not everyone heals the same way.
Relief can come from so many places:
massage, meditation, journaling, yoga, expressive art, energy tapping, music, acupuncture, even a support animal.
There isn’t a single “correct” method.
What helps you now might shift later, and that’s normal.
Your grief is unique.
Your tools will be too.

12/23/2025

As a grief therapist, I see this a lot:
people don’t worry about their sadness until someone else makes them feel like they shouldn’t feel it.
Comments like “you’ll be fine,” “you have so much to be grateful for,” or “let’s go do something fun”..
Those shut people down fast.
Grievers don’t always want to feel happy as much as they want to feel heard.
Talking about sadness helps people move forward.
If someone trusts you enough to share how they feel, listen. It genuinely helps them heal.

12/18/2025

Sometimes people pull away when someone they love is sick — not because they don’t care, but because they get scared and don’t know what to say.
You don’t have to have the right words.
You don’t have to fix anything.
You don’t have to be strong or wise or brave.
Just stay.
Check in.
Send the “thinking of you.”
Ask how they’re doing today.
Those tiny moments of showing up mean more than you’d ever guess.
And they’re what people remember long after everything else.

If this helped something land for you, you’re not alone.Grief is full of moments that don’t make sense until suddenly… t...
12/16/2025

If this helped something land for you, you’re not alone.
Grief is full of moments that don’t make sense until suddenly… they do.
You can read the full post on my blog at www.healingforgriefandloss.com
And feel free to share if it might help someone else feel a little more understood today.

12/11/2025

You don’t always see your own healing.
It’s quiet. Subtle. Barely-there movement.
But even on the days you feel frozen,
something in you is shifting.
Your mind. Your body. Your heart.
Grief doesn’t stop your life.
It just slows the way you move through it.
And that still counts as movement.

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Newton, MA
02458

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