While most of our fears will never come to pass, the heartbreak of loss is something that will eventually touch all of us.

Grief is not about building a new life without the person you’ve lost but about finding new ways of incorporating them into ...

My daughter Iona was born 32 years ago. She arrived at home, in such a rush to enter the world that my wife was unable to ...

In 2019 I asked him if he would read at the launch at the Irish Secretariat in Belfast of a series of podcast interviews I had carried out for Wave Trauma ... a generous soul, a bearer of witness.

In 2023, a father fled Kherson, where his wife died and Russian occupiers destroyed his apartment. The young widower found a ...

The only entrance was a trap door at the top of the pit, always out of reach – but visible – to the poor soul trapped inside ... visitors claim to have felt a sudden and unexpected wave of grief and ...

This is not the same as “making yourself feel good," which is a strategy for suppressing and controlling grief. This will not help you move through difficult waves of emotion that hit you.

They’re frequently present when there’s large surf but they can also be present with smaller waves. Are they survivable? Yes. Are they avoidable? Absolutely! NWS Guam issues a twice-daily Surf ...