Grief and Trauma – Intuitive Understanding

Beyond Right and Wrong: Facing Our Shared Grief from the COVID-19 Pandemic

Tammy Adams — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 18:58:45 +0000

In this guest blog I am sharing the wisdom of, Allison James Henry, from The Grief Recovery Institute. I hope you find this blog helpful. You lived through something that changed nearly everything: The COVID-19 pandemic. It affected every aspect of life: how people worked, connected, and how safe they felt. It divided families, friendships, and even communities that once felt close. For some…

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Overcoming Grief

Tammy Adams — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 18:52:38 +0000

In this guest blog I am sharing the wisdom of Grief Recovery Specialist, Russell Friedman, from The Grief Recovery Institute. I hope you find this blog helpful. Overcoming Grief and Loss: You can’t go over, under, or around it, you must go through it! Our earliest socialization tells us: Don’t Feel Bad, Be Strong, Don’t Burden Others With Your Feelings. Using just those few incorrect ideas…

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40+ Life Experiences that Cause Grief

Tammy Adams — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 18:44:22 +0000

In this guest blog I am sharing the wisdom of Grief Recovery Specialist, Russell Friedman, from The Grief Recovery Institute. I hope you find this blog helpful. We’re indebted to psychiatrists Thomas Holmes and Richard Rahe for the insightful research that led to the Holmes-Rahe Stress Scale. The now-famous scale details the 43 life events that are most liable to create feelings of grief…

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The Best Grief Definition

Tammy Adams — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 17:48:35 +0000

In this guest blog I am sharing the wisdom of Grief Recovery Specialist, Russell Friedman, from The Grief Recovery Institute. I hope you find this blog helpful. Since grief is such a wide topic that covers so many kinds of losses and an almost infinite range of emotions, there isn’t a single grief definition that covers it all. We use three to help people understand what is grief and what it isn’…

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Alzheimer’s, Dementia and Grief

Tammy Adams — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 16:50:15 +0000

In this guest blog I am sharing the wisdom of Grief Recovery Specialist, Stephen Moeller, from The Grief Recovery Institute. I hope you find this blog helpful. Dementia and Alzheimer’s disease, though different in definition, can each leave other family members with a deep sense of loss. Watching someone you have loved slowly lose your shared memories and become lost in familiar surroundings…

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Stages of Grief: The Myth

Tammy Adams — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 17:38:33 +0000

In this guest blog I am sharing the wisdom of Grief Recovery Specialist, Russell Friedman, from The Grief Recovery Institute. I hope you find this blog helpful. Many people have contested the validity of the stages of dying, but here we are more concerned with the supposed stages of grief which derived from the stages of dying. As professional grief recovery specialists, we contend that the…

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Death and Grief

Tammy Adams — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 17:34:59 +0000

In this guest blog I am sharing the wisdom of Grief Recovery Specialist, Russell Friedman, from The Grief Recovery Institute. I hope you find this blog helpful. Somehow we have been led to believe that it isn’t appropriate to communicate our sad feelings to others. One of the ideas is that by doing so, we would burden them with what we feel. By that logic, would it also follow that we shouldn’…

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Saying Goodbye to a Relationship

Tammy Adams — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 17:27:32 +0000

In this guest blog I am sharing the wisdom of Grief Recovery Specialist, Russell Friedman, from The Grief Recovery Institute. I hope you find this blog helpful. Do you recall a time in the bloom of your first love when your feet barely scraped the ground and everything felt right in your world? If you remember those feelings, but the relationship that inspired them didn’t make it all the way to…

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Kids and Loss

Tammy Adams — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 17:31:53 +0000

In this guest blog I am sharing the wisdom of Grief Recovery Specialist, Russell Friedman, from The Grief Recovery Institute. I hope you find this blog helpful. A sponge cannot differentiate between deadly poison and sweet nectar. It sops up whatever liquid it contacts. Children are like sponges. They cannot distinguish the value of the information they are immersed in, especially when they are…

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Don’t Say These Things

Tammy Adams — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 17:09:56 +0000

In this guest blog I am sharing the wisdom of Grief Recovery Specialist, Russell Friedman, from The Grief Recovery Institute. I hope you find this blog helpful. The first time an idea or feeling occurs to me, I give it a glance. If it doesn’t rivet my attention, I let it pass through and go on its merry way. If the same thought or emotion repeats itself a short time later, I give it a second…

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