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The death or loss of any loved one can spark intense grief. But in a culture that already places limits on expected displays and durations of grief, if the lost loved one isn’t in a specific close familial relationship to us, we are often met with surprise or irritation when we want to take the time and space to grieve. The reality is familial ties don’t dictate relationship closeness or intensity. Giving ourselves permission to process our emotions is an important part of the grieving process.

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Voices in Unity: A Conversation with Mirabai Starr

Mirabai Starr, who lives in the mountains of Northern New Mexico, is an author and highly sought-after speaker on the teachings of the mystics and contemplative practice.

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What Is the Nature of Sound Healing? An Interview with Silvia Nakkach, Part 1

Part One of an interview with musician and composer Silvia Nakkach. She discusses how sound and music can bring about healing and why this is applicable in end-of-life situations.

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What Is the Nature of Sound Healing? An Interview with Silvia Nakkach, Part 2

Part Two of an interview with musician and composer Silvia Nakkach. She discusses how sound and music can bring about healing and why this is applicable in end-of-life situations.

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Veterans Day: How Crosses and Mementos Help These Marines Remember Fallen Comrades

Many members of the public don’t have a clear understanding of what service means to people in the military. How do they honor their own? What kind of spaces and activities help them reflect and remember – beyond one day a year?

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Joanne Cacciatore on Bereavement Work and Traumatic Loss: On the Future of Mental Health

Part of being human means that we do experience the natural ebb and flow of life. This brings sadness and joy, despair and happiness, pain and beauty, loss and love. These aspects of the human experience are normal.

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How Losing Her Family and Battling Drug Addiction Led to Triumph for This Meditation Guru

Biet Simkin has had a "hard" life: she’s lost her mother, and her father. She got signed to Sony at 18, only to have her career not take off. She’s conquered a crushing addiction to heroin and cocaine. She became a single mother while recovering from her addiction, only to lose her baby to SIDS.

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How We Grieve: Meghan O’Rourke on the Messiness of Mourning and Learning to Live with Loss

In The Long Goodbye, her magnificent memoir of grieving her mother’s death, Meghan O’Rourke crafts a masterwork of remembrance and reflection woven of extraordinary emotional intelligence.

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Finding Purpose in Grief: The MISS Foundation Offers a Light at the End of Life’s Darkest Tunnel

A young mother nears the end of her pregnancy with the hope that this child will be as healthy as her other three children. For some reason, however, she feels a sense that something is wrong.

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Exile Returned

Agha Shahid Ali’s poems are charmed whispers that can console and devastate

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What Is Death?

This year has awakened us to the fact that we die. We’ve always known it to be true in a technical sense, but a pandemic demands that we internalize this understanding. It’s one thing to acknowledge the deaths of others, and another to accept our own.

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