Understanding Reproductive Loss Reproductive loss is a deeply personal and often devastating, highly distressing event for individuals, parents, and families. It encompasses a range of experiences, including infertility, miscarriage, stillbirth, and neonatal death, each with its own unique challenges and emotional toll. The impact of...
Disenfranchised grief is a type of grief that isn’t accepted or acknowledged by society. (This makes sense, as the word “disenfranchised” is defined as being “deprived of some right, privilege, or immunity”). For example, people may tell the grieving person that they should be “over...
In many cases, grief occurs when someone has already suffered a loss. But grief can also result from a loss that is impending but hasn’t yet occurred. When this happens, it’s referred to as “anticipatory grief” or “preparatory grief.” Anticipatory grief commonly affects individuals who...
Have you recently lost a spouse, partner, child, parent, sibling, extended family member, friend, or pet? Grief after losing a loved one (also known as “bereavement”) can be one of the hardest experiences to carry as human beings. To help you get through this difficult...