Blog – personal stories, insights & support on grief & loss

A real grief story about what losing your mother actually feels like, why grief never follows a straight line, and what's different five years later.

As a widow or widower, you’re not just grieving your spouse. You’re fighting every day to make life feel livable again. What actually helps with that loneliness.

"How long is this going to last?" is one of the most common questions in grief. Why there's no fixed timeline, what shapes your grief, and when to reach out for support.

After an abortion, relief, certainty, and grief can sit side by side. Why all of these feelings are allowed, and how to find space for them without judgment.

"I should be feeling something, but there's nothing there." Emotional numbness after a death can be a normal protective response, and part of grief rather than its absence.

Want to be there for someone who's grieving but can't find the right words? What actually helps, which well-meaning phrases can hurt, and how to keep showing up over time.

"It was still so early." Words like these hurt because they make the loss seem smaller. Your grief after a miscarriage is real and doesn't need justifying.

Grief, relief, guilt, all at once? If your relationship with your mother or father was difficult, your grief is still real.

Since your mom died, nothing feels the same. Why losing a mother hits so deep, which reactions are normal, and what genuinely helps.

Denial, anger, acceptance: almost everyone has heard of the stages of grief. Where the model really comes from, why it rarely matches real grief, and what can help instead.

A colleague dies, an employee loses a parent: most companies aren't prepared. What HR and managers can do, drawn from real workplace grief programs.

Nadja lost both of her parents and shares openly how grief counseling helped her sort through her feelings, support her children, and find her footing in daily life again.

Margarita was 24 when she lost her mom after two years of cancer. In this interview, she shares what gives her strength, what remains, and what grief really feels like.

Rituals, a shared meal, tears and laughter: what a grief retreat is, who it can help, and what a day with twelve grieving people in Austria looked like.

Eleven years in the corporate world, where grief was taboo. What you need when you have to work after a loss, and why grief needs room between emails and meetings too.