emotionally intelligent grief support
Grieving people should not have to worry about losing their jobs. Yet millions of bereaved Americans currently have no job or wage protections. Right now the average American can be fired for not showing up to work the day after their child – or spouse, or domestic partner, or a parent, or a sibling –…
With LGBTQIA+ Pride celebrations kicking off this week it’s easy to feel… well, a lot of things. With the anti-queer, anti-trans, anti-reproductive rights, pro-violence of the world, anything joyful or joy-adjacent can seem strange. It’s also still a pandemic, so there’s that too. Even without the cacophony of the wider world, if you’re grieving,…
Graduation season is tough on grieving people. We’re thinking of all the people for whom this period of achievement and should-be celebration brings additional pain. Absent people make these milestones hard to bear: People who should be graduating with their peers. People who should be watching their children, relatives, friends, or partners graduating. People who…
It’s Memorial Day weekend in the States. Of course, the actual meaning of the Memorial Day holiday is rooted in grief: it’s meant as a special time to remember those who have died in service to their country, or died after service to their country. It should be (or could be) a time to talk…
Is the pandemic over? (spoiler: not even close) In the US, the number of people who have died from COVID-19 is about to officially surpass 1 million. (when you take under-reporting into consideration, the numbers are much higher) While Covid-related health & safety protocols have been dropped in most places – and there’s even talk…
So May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and y’all know how I feel about these arbitrary “pay attention to it now, forget it tomorrow” events. HOWEVER. Open, direct conversations about mental and emotional health are important. They’re necessary. But if all these “we need to talk about mental health” campaigns don’t also focus on *HOW*…
This week on Here After with Megan Devine: Grief by any other name: looking back to look ahead Episode 20! We made it to the end of season one! This week, a conversation with co-producer Tanya Juhasz on our favorite moments of season one, and why it’s so hard to get people to listen to…
This week on Here After with Megan Devine: Palliative care is for everyone (yeah, even YOU) with guest, trauma surgeon Dr. Red Hoffman Wait, isn’t palliative care something hospice does before somebody dies? Well, yes, but that’s just part of the story: palliative care covers a whole lot of health conditions, even temporary medical health…
