Tales of Grief

Dreaming

Dream Big and Create Your Own Magic in 2023

Edy Nathan on January 2, 2023

A personal perspective on the maze, the brain, and magic.

A personal perspective on the maze, the brain, and magic.

Grief

Faith in Humanity

Edy Nathan on December 25, 2022

A Personal Perspective: Do grief responses come in unsuspecting ways? Change the script, and it can be an ally for growth.

A Personal Perspective: Do grief responses come in unsuspecting ways? Change the script, and it can be an ally for growth.

Personal Perspectives

Social and Sexual Grief Among Teens After COVID

Edy Nathan on November 29, 2022

For the teens who endured the COVID-19 pandemic, their sexual grief is alive in the loss of what they couldn’t explore or embody.

For the teens who endured the COVID-19 pandemic, their sexual grief is alive in the loss of what they couldn’t explore or embody.

Sex

Social and Sexual Grief: The Trials of the Adolescents of COVID-19

Edy Nathan on November 15, 2022

The children who have been in the COVID-19 haze of development need to find ways to spread their wings, despite the developmental delay that was no fault of their own.

The children who have been in the COVID-19 haze of development need to find ways to spread their wings, despite the developmental delay that was no fault of their own.

Personal Perspectives

Grief and Role-Confusion

Edy Nathan on October 30, 2022

The "role-confusion" phase of grief allows you to learn about yourself as you move with all the pieces of the puzzle that have gone missing since grief entered your life.

The "role-confusion" phase of grief allows you to learn about yourself as you move with all the pieces of the puzzle that have gone missing since grief entered your life.

Personal Perspectives

My Phases of Grief: Phase One, Emotional Armor

Edy Nathan on October 18, 2022

The emotional armor phase of grief is a safe haven, a place you will revisit many times. It provides your soul with a needed chance to re-group, rest, and restore.

The emotional armor phase of grief is a safe haven, a place you will revisit many times. It provides your soul with a needed chance to re-group, rest, and restore.

Personal Perspectives

5 Power Tools to Reset Grief's Anger

Edy Nathan on August 22, 2022

Acknowledge the presence of grief and anger as unexpected allies. When you do that simple step, you create the necessary healing moves needed to feel better.

Acknowledge the presence of grief and anger as unexpected allies. When you do that simple step, you create the necessary healing moves needed to feel better.

Personal Perspectives

How to Help a Child in Grief

Edy Nathan on May 16, 2022

A Personal Perspective: Finding balance with children on the grief journey.

A Personal Perspective: Finding balance with children on the grief journey.

Personal Perspectives

How Maternal Archetypes Can Help You Grieve

Edy Nathan on April 30, 2022

Mother's Day Reminder: The Mother archetype influences our ability to engage and disengage. It prompts the need for others to see your pain as a means to validate it.

Mother's Day Reminder: The Mother archetype influences our ability to engage and disengage. It prompts the need for others to see your pain as a means to validate it.

Personal Perspectives

The Hero and the Hero’s Shadow: The Archetype That Defines Us

Edy Nathan on March 30, 2022

A Personal Perspective: The Hero is an archetype who can be an ardent supporter and cheerleader, finding ways to help us meet big and little grief and other trials directly.

A Personal Perspective: The Hero is an archetype who can be an ardent supporter and cheerleader, finding ways to help us meet big and little grief and other trials directly.

Personal Perspectives

How Sadness and Grief Can Become Allies

Edy Nathan on March 3, 2022

Sadness can be a place of gentle and vulnerable being, an oddly tranquil place of contemplation and becoming.

Sadness can be a place of gentle and vulnerable being, an oddly tranquil place of contemplation and becoming.

Grief

Turn Grief and Distraction Into an Ally

Edy Nathan on January 27, 2022

A Personal Perspective: The co-worker who you avoid, for good reason, says the thing you knew they’d say, all you think in the bathroom holding back tears: “Where’s my phone?”

A Personal Perspective: The co-worker who you avoid, for good reason, says the thing you knew they’d say, all you think in the bathroom holding back tears: “Where’s my phone?”

Personal Perspectives

Calm Burnout With the 5 Senses

Edy Nathan on October 13, 2021

A simple scan of all the senses is the perfect, low-stakes call to action on your journey with burnout and grief. 

A simple scan of all the senses is the perfect, low-stakes call to action on your journey with burnout and grief. 

Personal Perspectives

Life After COVID: From Grief to Growth

Edy Nathan on August 4, 2021

The virus created a perfect storm of stressors significant enough to keep just about everyone from cultivating their best relationship. However, they do provide us with perspective

The virus created a perfect storm of stressors significant enough to keep just about everyone from cultivating their best relationship. However, they do provide us with perspective

Grief

Coping with Grief on Father's Day

Edy Nathan on June 16, 2021

“Celebrating” this holiday can be about giving yourself the gift of a new perspective.

“Celebrating” this holiday can be about giving yourself the gift of a new perspective.

Personal Perspectives

Helping Teenagers Through COVID Depression

Edy Nathan on April 18, 2021

Ouch. That hurts. Don’t touch me. I don’t want to talk about it. Silence (and it’s deafening, isn’t it?).

Ouch. That hurts. Don’t touch me. I don’t want to talk about it. Silence (and it’s deafening, isn’t it?).

Personal Perspectives

Post-Trauma Trauma

Edy Nathan on January 29, 2021

January 6th is over. The election is over. Or is it? Post-trauma is ripe in its presentation — you know the facts of the change or shift, yet your body and mind don’t believe it.

January 6th is over. The election is over. Or is it? Post-trauma is ripe in its presentation — you know the facts of the change or shift, yet your body and mind don’t believe it.

Personal Perspectives

Sex, Lies, and Loss

Edy Nathan on December 31, 2020

When the sex life you had known, those intimate, fun, sexy moments, have been seized by “I'm busy," or “I’m too tired."

When the sex life you had known, those intimate, fun, sexy moments, have been seized by “I'm busy," or “I’m too tired."

Personal Perspectives

Holiday Grief Strikes

Edy Nathan on November 30, 2020

Grief from holidays oscillates and the phases vary in length and intensity. Avoiding it only causes holiday grief to build up, and it will either implode or explode.

Grief from holidays oscillates and the phases vary in length and intensity. Avoiding it only causes holiday grief to build up, and it will either implode or explode.

Personal Perspectives

Therapist Lament: Thanksgiving Is for Giving

Edy Nathan on November 11, 2020

This year the holidays are different for all. As therapists, how do we adjust?

This year the holidays are different for all. As therapists, how do we adjust?