Grief as an adult can often leave you balancing grief with your responsibilities, like work, caregiving, and family . Unlike children, adults can often feel pressure to “hold it together” for others, even while carrying their own pain. This dual burden can make grief harder to navigate, as personal sadness can collide with external responsibilities. What Science Says:  Adults may experience role strain, the stress of juggling personal loss with external obligations (Pearlin,

Grief as a child is often so unimaginable. Children struggle to understand death and its permanence. Their grief may appear as confusion, fear, regression in behavior, or sudden changes in mood. Unlike adults, children often move in and out of grief quickly, crying one moment and playing the next. This doesn’t mean they aren’t grieving; it reflects their developmental stage and limited ability to sustain intense emotions.  What Science Says:  Piaget’s Cognitive Development Th

Grief is often a deep and yet so personal experience; it leaves us searching for ways to express our emotions that our words often cannot. Music provides a unique outlet because it engages both our emotional and cognitive processes. Studies revealed that 94% of adult grievers intentionally used music during their grief journey, saying it has become a widespread coping mechanism (Garrido & Davidson, 2019). I, to this day, find myself listening to certain music when I hit harde

Grief often can lead us to build a wall between us and the world around us. For most teenagers, the isolation from the wall they put up can be even harder to break. As a teenager, we see that it is already a time where so much change is occurring, whether it be emotionally, socially, or most importantly, physically. I know firsthand that our relationships with others, especially our peers, mean the absolute most, and often the need to belong becomes our only identity. Now in