Loss of interest

It's difficult to know exactly what to say to someone who has lost a loved one. Start from a well-intentioned place of offering support.

A new resource for educators offers insights and guidance to support students dealing with the loss of a loved one.

My third and final post on the photography of French photographer John Batho, these images from the series Présents et absents' 1998, are very different from the previous posts with their exuberant colour. "I am so interested in the loss of identity, fading to oblivion, the disappearance (...). Curiously this work brings back my childhood marked by the absence of my father, a prisoner of war for four years. In front of the photograph of my father, a great framed and mounted on the wall of…

Grief has two main strands: Living with grief which means being kind to yourself, and remembering with love our lost ones. Creativity is a feature of both strands. What do you create?

Stages of Grief

The inability of feeling pleasure is called anhedonia and it is a loss of interest in previously rewarding or enjoyable activities. For most of us is hard to understand life without it. Unfortunately, some of us cannot feel it.

talking to the moon...

As a cancer doctor, I see death—and see how the loss of a loved one is a part of each person’s life forever.