Writing
fromPsychology Today
10 hours agoLoving My Mother, Unlearning Myself
Love and pressure coexist in mother-daughter relationships, shaping identity and fueling personal growth through grief and complex emotions.
#grief
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#loneliness
Mental health
fromSilicon Canals
3 weeks agoNobody warns you that grief and loneliness are two different animals that hunt together. Grief takes the person. Loneliness takes every small moment you used to share with them and leaves you standing in the kitchen holding two coffee cups out of habit, morning after morning, until you teach yourself to reach for one. - Silicon Canals
Grief and loneliness are distinct experiences that affect individuals differently, with grief being a communal event and loneliness a persistent absence.
fromKALTBLUT Magazine
1 day agoWriting to Stay Alive: Lynn Breedlove from Trust Me and the Sound of Loss - KALTBLUT Magazine
The album that emerged is a series of vignettes about the men in Breedlove's life, living and dead, beloved and infuriating. It spans the AIDS crisis, chosen family, knife collections, and a complicated inheritance of grief that Breedlove transforms, as he always has, into something that makes people laugh and cry at the same time.
Music
#loss
Cancer
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 day agoAfter all the horrible things we've been through,' he said to me, if I die of cancer, it will make a bad story': Siri Hustvedt on losing Paul Auster
Grief after losing a loved one can distort time perception and create overwhelming emotional and physical challenges.
Cancer
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 day agoAfter all the horrible things we've been through,' he said to me, if I die of cancer, it will make a bad story': Siri Hustvedt on losing Paul Auster
Grief after losing a loved one can distort time perception and create overwhelming emotional and physical challenges.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
2 days agoPsychology says adult children don't grieve their aging parents all at once - they grieve them in a thousand tiny deaths, like the first time your mother forgets she told you the same story twice, or the afternoon you notice your father's hands shaking when he signs his name - Silicon Canals
Anticipatory grief involves mourning the gradual changes in living parents, representing incremental losses rather than just preparing for death.
#retirement
Retirement
fromSilicon Canals
4 days agoPsychology suggests retirees who become genuinely exhausting to be around are almost never aware they're doing it - because the crankiness is grief wearing a disguise and the neediness is loneliness knocking on the only doors still open, and neither one feels like a choice from the inside - Silicon Canals
Retirement can lead to unexpected grief and identity loss, resulting in irritability and strained relationships.
Careers
fromSilicon Canals
1 week agoPsychology suggests the reason retirement feels like grief for so many people isn't weakness - it's because purpose, structure, and identity were all bundled into one thing called a job, and losing the job means losing all three at once - Silicon Canals
Retirement can lead to a profound loss of purpose, structure, and identity, creating feelings of grief and invisibility.
fromCalifornia Post
5 days agoMom of 2 boys killed by LA socialite in hit-and-run crash reveals vile message killer sent from jail
Last week, Rebecca Grossman-the woman who killed my two precious boys, Mark and Jacob, by speeding through a crosswalk-made a request that I would go visit her in prison... to 'see the circumstances she is in.' And that she is 'A victim.'
SF parents
Mindfulness
fromLondon Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com
6 days agoHow to keep your career going in the midst of grief - London Business News | Londonlovesbusiness.com
Grief can disrupt work, but maintaining structure and realistic expectations helps navigate both loss and professional responsibilities.
#emotional-resilience
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
1 week agoPsychology says the reason some people become gentler as they age while others become bitter has nothing to do with personality. It depends on whether they processed their grief along the way or stored it in their body and called it toughness - Silicon Canals
Grief, especially non-finite losses, significantly influences whether individuals become gentler or more bitter as they age.
Parenting
fromSilicon Canals
3 weeks agoMy father grew up in the 1960s and he's the toughest man I know - not because he's never been broken, but because I have never once seen him stay broken, and the speed with which he gets back up has always looked to me less like strength and more like a man who was simply never taught that staying down was an option - Silicon Canals
Men of previous generations often lacked the emotional vocabulary to process grief, leading to a stoic facade in the face of loss.
#bereavement
Fundraising
fromIrish Independent
1 week agoWexford father organising charity match in memory of son who died at birth - 'When you lose a child, you lose all the days that go with it'
Féileacáin provides essential support for parents affected by the death of a baby around birth, helping them navigate their grief and keep memories alive.
Mental health
fromSilicon Canals
1 week agoPsychology explains people who remain joyful into their 70s aren't the ones who suffered least - they're the ones who grieved most honestly, who let the losses be as large as they actually were, and who came out the other side with enough room left to let something good back in - Silicon Canals
Genuine happiness in old age often comes from embracing grief and loss rather than avoiding it.
#mental-health
fromSilicon Canals
1 week agoPsychology
Psychology suggests people who become difficult to be around with age are almost always carrying an unprocessed grief - for the life they expected and didn't get, for the recognition they believed they had earned and never received, for the version of themselves they were supposed to become - and the difficulty is what that grief sounds like when it has been stored as resentment for long enough to become the way they experience everything - Silicon Canals
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
1 week agoPsychology suggests people who become difficult to be around with age are almost always carrying an unprocessed grief - for the life they expected and didn't get, for the recognition they believed they had earned and never received, for the version of themselves they were supposed to become - and the difficulty is what that grief sounds like when it has been stored as resentment for long enough to become the way they experience everything - Silicon Canals
Unprocessed grief can manifest as bitterness and negativity, stemming from unfulfilled dreams and unmet expectations in life.
Psychology
fromSilicon Canals
1 week agoThe people who seem unbothered when someone pulls away aren't indifferent. They've simply been left enough times that their nervous system learned to begin the departure before the other person finishes theirs, and what looks like calm is actually a head start on grief. - Silicon Canals
Emotional responses often begin before conscious awareness, as the body processes grief and loss through involuntary reactions.
fromInverse
2 weeks agoKelly Marie Tran's Eerie New Ghost Movie Unearths A Forgotten Piece Of American History
Miao wanted to explore the lingering cultural grief of a historic atrocity, stating, 'That's a ghost story.' This reflects the fragmentation and feelings of grief that come with being haunted by something lost.
Film
Mental health
fromSilicon Canals
2 weeks agoPsychology explains the reason some people grow sweeter with age while others grow bitter has nothing to do with how hard their life was - it's about whether they learned to grieve their losses or hoard them - Silicon Canals
Aging can lead to either bitterness or sweetness, depending on how one processes life's hurts and losses.
fromNew York Post
2 weeks agoSlain NYPD hero Jonathan Diller's widow covers her ears in court as husband's last moments are described
Defense attorney Jamal Johnson claimed, 'All of the [Command Response Team] officers in this case, they are invested. They have a motive to lie.' This statement was made during the trial of Guy Rivera, accused of killing NYPD officer Jonathan Diller.
Law
Mental health
fromSilicon Canals
3 weeks agoI grew up with a mother who was physically there but emotionally unreachable - and the confusion that produced, the child's inability to grieve a parent who is standing right in front of them, is the thing I have spent the most years in therapy trying to untangle and the thing I understood least for the longest - Silicon Canals
Emotional absence from a present parent can lead to profound feelings of unworthiness in a child.
fromDallas Observer
3 weeks agoTaylor Sheridan Made Dallas Feel Like New York City, Says The Madison Cast
When I read the scripts, I was really blown away by them. I am a fan of Taylor, and I think his writing is fantastic. To me, this just had a certain poetry to it. It was creating imagery of this place in my mind before I had even seen where it would take place. It was beautiful and lyrical.
Austin
fromIndependent
4 weeks ago'Total thievery is what it is. An outrage when she's not here' - The Creep Dive podcast co-host Jen O'Dwyer on the death of her sister at just 16
"This is me training myself to be still and slow. That's what I struggle with. I will spin out at top speed. My struggle is always just pullback."
Arts
fromEsquire
1 month agoTaylor Sheridan Takes 'The Madison' Part 2 to New York. It Doesn't Go Well.
Stacy's journey reveals that even in a seemingly perfect marriage, there are hidden complexities that only surface after a significant loss. Her struggle to understand her husband posthumously highlights the often-unseen layers of relationships.
Medicine
Relationships
fromSlate Magazine
1 month agoI Found Something in My Late Husband's Things That Unveiled a Decade-Long Lie. I'm Not Sure I Should Tell Our Kids.
Navigating grief and betrayal after a spouse's death presents complex emotional challenges, especially regarding the truth about their infidelity and its impact on family.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month agoValidation was an insatiable monster': Dave Grohl on Foo Fighters' punk-rock return and life after his infidelity
I've been in therapy six days a week for 70 weeks, he says. I did the maths the other day: over 430 sessions. Even by US standards, that is a lot but if anyone needed to work out who they are and why they were doing what they were doing, it was Grohl.
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