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Welcome to the Grief Matters blog. We intend for this space to provide an opportunity for the Grief Matters community to write, read, share, and reflect about ‘all things grief.’ At Grief Matters, we understand grief as the experience of loss. This loss could be a death (a human, an animal). It could also be the loss of something else: your health, a job, an opportunity, a future goal, or dream.

While grief can look and feel different to every individual, we live our grief within our social networks and in our communities. We feel that community matters deeply to the experience of grief. So, we invite you to share with us in order to help create more grief-attuned communities.   

How does grief matter to you?   

What grief matters are important to you?   

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Parasocial grief and why I can grieve Matthew Perry
Mary Ellen Macdonald Mary Ellen Macdonald

Parasocial grief and why I can grieve Matthew Perry

Academics and clinicians love to break down concepts into component parts. These parts then can take on lives of their own.

I’m not a fan of how grief is continually being broken into parts. Ambiguous grief. Anticipatory grief. Abbreviated grief. Absent grief.

*Photo by Tim Marshall

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