Not all losses are visible, and not all grief is acknowledged, but that does not make them any less real. When someone experiences a significant loss, an ending has occurred. In this context, loss and endings are interchangeable. These endings can take many forms: the death of a loved one, family illness, leaving or losing a job, the end of a relationship, or leaving a country due to political circumstances. Each of these situations represents a meaningful shift, something that once was is no...

There are two certainties in life: death and taxes. But what about grief? Is grieving as universal as death itself? Grief is a natural response to significant loss. Since most people will experience multiple losses in their lifetime, it seems reasonable to assume that everyone grieves. Yet from a cultural perspective, this assumption becomes more complex. In his talk “Four Ways of Letting Go,”  Ajahn Brahm recounts his time living in a remote village in Northeast Thailand, an area largely...

"Buried Losses Revealed"... is a podcast that introduces the content for my 4 week online workshop that I have facilitated numerous times over the years hosted by the University of Toronto, Faculty of Social Work's Institute for Life Course and Aging. The workshop title is: "Grief Intervention for All Types of Situational Loss Over the Life Course"... In this blog post, there is a snippet of the podcast introducing you to the primary assumption and the markers for applying the 3-A Coping...