How to Cope with Grief when the Body Hurts
Grief and Sympathy
How to cope with grief when our body is letting us down and bombarding us with scary physical symptoms.
By Dorothy P. Holinger
The best books that made me gasp as I wrote my book on grief
Shepherd
The books I picked and why.
By Dorothy P. Holinger
Fathers: The Missing, the Lost, and the Loved
Psychology Today
A Personal Perspective: Father may be gone but memories of him live on.
By Dorothy P. Holinger
Mothers
INELDA
Mothers, however, portrayed—as Byzantine Madonnas, mercurial presences in fairy tales, or emancipated professionals in contemporary fiction—embody an essence, a relationship, that is hard to capture with mere words.
By Dorothy P. Holinger
The collective grief we must face
The Hill
Our national sorrow needs to be recognized and expressed. Art can help us.
By Dorothy P. Holinger, Opinion Contributor
How mourning can affect us mentally and even physically
The Washington Post
Dorothy P. Holinger fuses science and the humanities, in her introspective and poetic book, The Anatomy of Grief.
By Erin Blakemore
Officials’ Missteps on Covid, Then and Now
The New York Times
Those who lost their lives to the virus and died alone without family were cared for by frontline workers, our national heroes. We need to acknowledge our collective grief and celebrate those who were with them as they died.
By Dorothy P. Holinger, Opinion Contributor
We Weren’t Meant to Grieve Alone
The New York Times
We’ve been deprived of the last moments with loved ones and in-person gatherings to mourn together. What can we do to heal?
By Susan Gruber
We’re All Accumulating ‘Grief Debt’ Right Now—Will We Ever Be Able To Repay It?
Well + Good
What is unequivocally true is that right now marks one of the few times in history that every person in the country is experiencing some form of loss at the same time, a phenomenon some psychologists are calling “collective grief”.
By Emily Lawrence
There’s A Reason Hard Moments Push You Towards Creativity
Medium
Psychologist Dorothy P. Holinger explains the connection.
By Vivan Nunez
The Reckoning
Psychology Today
Dorothy P. Holinger explores death, trauma, and grief in the time of COVID-19.
By Dorothy P. Holinger, Ph.D.
Pandemic Grief
Yale University Press
Pandemic grief is a new form of grief that has affected us all.
By Dorothy P. Holinger, Ph.D.