In my grief support work with parents and siblings, I will sometimes ask, "Where do you feel your grief in your body today?" If they respond, “I feel it in my throat” or “It feels stuck in me”, I suggest they find a quiet time in their day and write a few words each day in a journal. Suggestions range from stream-of-consciousness writing upon waking, to letters over morning coffee, or simply jotting down five experiences before sleep. Research has shown that writing for just a few days about...

A few days after my son, James, died of accidental fentanyl poisoning in June 2020, I found myself putting together a makeshift memorial...

On June 8, 2020, my twenty-year-old son, James, was one of 87,000 deaths that year from an opioid overdose. His autopsy read accidental...