Healing for Grief and Loss

Healing for Grief and Loss The H.E.A.L.I.N.G. program works with individuals, groups, schools, agencies and organizations to validate, normalize and educate their process through grief.

As someone who does talk therapy for a living, I’ll be the first to say: not everyone processes grief by talking. And no...
12/25/2025

As someone who does talk therapy for a living, I’ll be the first to say: not everyone processes grief by talking.
And not everyone heals the same way.
Relief can come from so many places:
massage, meditation, journaling, yoga, expressive art, energy tapping, music, acupuncture, even a support animal.
There isn’t a single “correct” method.
What helps you now might shift later, and that’s normal.
Your grief is unique.
Your tools will be too.

12/23/2025

As a grief therapist, I see this a lot:
people don’t worry about their sadness until someone else makes them feel like they shouldn’t feel it.
Comments like “you’ll be fine,” “you have so much to be grateful for,” or “let’s go do something fun”..
Those shut people down fast.
Grievers don’t always want to feel happy as much as they want to feel heard.
Talking about sadness helps people move forward.
If someone trusts you enough to share how they feel, listen. It genuinely helps them heal.

12/18/2025

Sometimes people pull away when someone they love is sick — not because they don’t care, but because they get scared and don’t know what to say.
You don’t have to have the right words.
You don’t have to fix anything.
You don’t have to be strong or wise or brave.
Just stay.
Check in.
Send the “thinking of you.”
Ask how they’re doing today.
Those tiny moments of showing up mean more than you’d ever guess.
And they’re what people remember long after everything else.

If this helped something land for you, you’re not alone.Grief is full of moments that don’t make sense until suddenly… t...
12/16/2025

If this helped something land for you, you’re not alone.
Grief is full of moments that don’t make sense until suddenly… they do.
You can read the full post on my blog at www.healingforgriefandloss.com
And feel free to share if it might help someone else feel a little more understood today.

12/11/2025

You don’t always see your own healing.
It’s quiet. Subtle. Barely-there movement.
But even on the days you feel frozen,
something in you is shifting.
Your mind. Your body. Your heart.
Grief doesn’t stop your life.
It just slows the way you move through it.
And that still counts as movement.

If this made something click for you, you’re not alone. Grief shows up in so many quiet, unexpected ways.You can read th...
12/09/2025

If this made something click for you, you’re not alone.
Grief shows up in so many quiet, unexpected ways.
You can read the full post on my blog at www.healingforgriefandloss.com
And feel free to share if it might help someone else feel understood today.

12/04/2025

Grief rewrites you in ways you don’t notice at first.
Not because the pain disappears, but because you slowly learn how to carry it without losing yourself.
There are days it still knocks the wind out of you.
And days where you realize you’re standing a little taller than before.
Both are part of healing.
You don’t have to rush it.
You don’t have to be “over it.”
You’re allowed to grow at your own pace, even if the ache grows with you.
You’re doing the quiet, invisible work.
And that counts.

Grief comes in waves, but so does your strength.You don’t have to feel brave to be brave. Surviving every surge is proof...
12/02/2025

Grief comes in waves, but so does your strength.
You don’t have to feel brave to be brave. Surviving every surge is proof already.
When the next wave hits, don’t ask “why can’t I handle this?”
Ask, “what helped me survive it last time?”
Because you did. And you will again.

You’ve learned to avoid direct words around death.. to make it softer, less final, more bearable.But those one-syllable ...
11/27/2025

You’ve learned to avoid direct words around death.. to make it softer, less final, more bearable.

But those one-syllable words carry truth, and truth can be grounding.
When you can say death or died out loud, you’re not being harsh.
You’re being honest.

11/25/2025

Your emptiness serves a purpose.
Your sadness does too.
They are signals, not failures.
They point toward what mattered.
What still matters.
It’s reminding you of the love, purpose, and meaning that once lived there.
Sadness and emptiness are not the enemies of healing.
They’re part of how healing begins.

Have you ever said, “It hasn’t hit me yet”?In this week’s blog post, we look at what that really means — and how, more o...
11/20/2025

Have you ever said, “It hasn’t hit me yet”?
In this week’s blog post, we look at what that really means — and how, more often than not, grief has already hit us, just not in the ways we expected. From numbness to exhaustion to constant busyness, we may already be “doing the work” of grief without realizing it.
Read the full post at: healingforgriefandloss.com

11/18/2025

We often think “doing well with grief” means we’ve stopped crying, stopped missing, or stopped feeling the weight of it.
But what if doing well actually means being able to feel the sadness fully.. without running from it?
You can have days where the loss feels just as raw as it did before, and still be healing.

Grief doesn’t follow a straight line. It’s not a pass/fail test.
It’s a lifelong relationship with love and loss — one that changes over time.

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