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Dani Shapiro Modern Loss

‘Take Ownership of What You’ve Discovered’

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Writer Dani Shapiro opens up about secrets, healing through exploring, and the thrill of of the word “million.”

This Podcast Begins at the End

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'Julie' — a new miniseries about dying — is surprisingly hopeful.

A Day in the Life of My Grief — Illustrated

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In which I wonder, 'How can all 19 Duggars be alive and I lost my only sister?'

Our Most-Read Stories of 2018

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Here are the Modern Loss pieces you loved.

Painting With the Children of Newtown

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The experience I had in Sandy Hook changed me at a cellular level.

The Modern Loss Holiday Gift Guide — 2018

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From scalp whisks to s’mores to soups that arrive at your doorstep, these gifts for the grieving say ‘the holidays are rough, but I love you.’

Why Michelle Obama’s Miscarriage Revelation Matters

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The former First Lady could change the conversation around pregnancy loss and infertility.

A Very Brady Christmas (But Way More Complicated)

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A newly engaged widow wants to know how to manage her bereaved in-laws' expectations this season. Our advice columnist weighs in.

Tips For Getting Through the Holidays When You’re Totally Sad

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Maybe someday the season won’t feel like someone is taking a melon baller to my heart, but for now getting through it is about knowing what to avoid and what to embrace.

11 People You Meet in Hell

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Minimizers, vultures, happy morons, competitors at the Sad Olympics and other people you’re bound to encounter on your grief journey.

What Is ‘Sexual Bereavement’?

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We don't talk about it enough.

Experience Camps Modern Loss

5 Ways Grieving Kids Changed My Own Relationship with Loss

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As a volunteer counselor for Experience Camps, I was tasked with helping kids to address their grief; yet it's the kids who ended up helping me to do the same.

Everything I Didn’t Want to Know About Miscarriages*

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My bold foray into documenting my loss in full color.

Modern Loss_Sheryl Sandberg

Don’t Call Sheryl Sandberg a Widow

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Modern Loss speaks with the Facebook COO about micro-stepping her way through grief, 'Option B,' and how she approaches those painful trigger holidays.

‘Grief Is Something You Live in and Then Eventually It Lives in You’

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Writer Ariel Levy on her son's birth, death and what she considers grief's most valuable lesson.

Sautéing My Way Through Grief

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When my best friend died in a car accident, I felt compelled to take up cooking. Here are three recipes that helped me through.

5 Inspiring Tribute Tattoos

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From words conjured in a dream to ashes mixed into ink, our columnist presents her annual feature on these forever memorials.

Grief Landscapes

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As an artist, it's an intimate and risky exchange to make something based on someone else’s grief. But I’d rather attempt to connect and engage than to turn away.

The Wills Party

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My wife and I thought finalizing our wills was a good reason to have a party. Here’s why.

The ‘Funeral Clothes Project’

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How (and why) I'm turning old funeral frocks into fine art.

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