Stories by Alan Wolfelt

What are you grateful for? Will you use the reset created by the pandemic to inventory your gratitude?
11/27/2020 - Alan Wolfelt
Get practical suggestions that will help you survive and still embrace hope during this unique and challenging time.
11/26/2020 - Alan Wolfelt
Understand our need for physical touch and discover tips for feeding your touch starvation during this time of social distancing.
10/20/2020 - Alan Wolfelt
Loss naturally makes us fearful because it disrupts our feelings of stability. Dr. Wolfelt has tips to helps you deal with anxiety and fear.
4/14/2020 - Alan Wolfelt
Dr. Alan D. Wolfelt shares tips on how to communicate with your children about the corona virus.
4/7/2020 - Alan Wolfelt
Dr. Alan Wolfelt shares what this pandemic of grief is and how to help yourself and others emotionally, socially, and spiritually.
3/26/2020 - Alan Wolfelt
The five natural instincts for support and companionship demonstrated by wild geese may help us find ways to support each other in times of grief.
10/21/2019 - Alan Wolfelt
To heal in grief is to become whole again, to integrate your grief into yourself and to learn to continue your changed life with fullness and meaning.
7/26/2019 - Alan Wolfelt
Acknowledging and embracing these necessary contradictions is part of our work of mourning. It’s a question of balance and back-and-forth.
5/2/2019 - Alan Wolfelt
"Count your blessings, for even while experiencing pain and hurt, there are things that make life worth living."
12/19/2018 - Alan Wolfelt
You can find continued meaning in the holidays and in life. You can continue to live and love fully. You must grieve but you can also celebrate.
12/18/2018 - Alan Wolfelt
People tend to use the two words interchangeably. But there is a crucial distinction.
10/17/2018 - Alan Wolfelt
It’s this back-and-forth of grief that provides momentum for the journey.
7/30/2018 - Alan Wolfelt
When it comes to mourning and how others can best help us, there’s no one right way. Identify and ask for the most effective grief support for you.
4/3/2018 - Alan Wolfelt
Ceremonies can help people who feel stuck in their grief get unstuck and provides them with continued momentum toward healing.
12/11/2017 - Alan Wolfelt
You deserve to live and love fully again. You deserve to experience meaning for the rest of your days.
10/16/2017 - Alan Wolfelt
Peer mentors have the opportunity to be companions, to listen with our hearts. I hope you choose to see your heart opening to people experiencing grief.
9/19/2017 - Alan Wolfelt
Walking with thousands of people in grief has resulted in an “educated heart” that has led to an acceptance of my role as a responsible rebel.
7/18/2016 - Alan Wolfelt
Often messages people in grief are given are in opposition to stillness. The paradox for many grievers as they try to move forward, they often lose their way.
4/11/2016 - Alan Wolfelt
Companioning the bereaved is not about assessing, analyzing, fixing or resolving another’s grief. Instead, it is about being totally present to the mourner.
1/12/2016 - Alan Wolfelt
How do you ever find your way out of the wilderness of your grief? You don't have to dwell there forever, do you?
6/21/2015 - Alan Wolfelt
This article will guide you in ways to turn your concern for the grandparents grief into positive action.
3/21/2015 - Alan Wolfelt
Sadness is a hallmark symptom of grief, which in turn is the consequence of losing something we care about.
12/21/2014 - Alan Wolfelt
What higher purpose is there in life but to give and receive love? Love is the essence of a life of abundance and joy.
9/21/2014 - Alan Wolfelt
As helpers, we need to provide support and acceptance so that survivors can grieve in healthy ways.
6/21/2014 - Alan Wolfelt
Why rituals are essential and how you can continue to use the power of ritual to help yourself and your family heal, even long after the death and funeral.
3/21/2014 - Alan Wolfelt
As a bereaved person, you have certain rights that others must not take away from you. In fact, it is the very upholding of these rights that makes healing possible.
12/21/2013 - Alan Wolfelt
Love is a sacred partnership of communion with another human being. You take each other in, and even when you are apart, you are together.
9/21/2013 - Alan Wolfelt
In opening to the presence of the pain of your loss, in being willing to gently embrace the pain, you demonstrate the courage to honor the pain.
6/21/2013 - Alan Wolfelt
If there is ever a time in life when we need others to support and nurture us, it’s when someone we love dies.
12/21/2012 - Alan Wolfelt
You have been “torn apart” and have some very unique needs. Among these needs is to nurture yourself physically, emotionally, cognitively, socially, and spiritually.
6/21/2012 - Alan Wolfelt
You have been “torn apart” and have some very unique needs. Among these needs is to nurture yourself physically, emotionally, cognitively, socially, and spiritually.
3/21/2012 - Alan Wolfelt
And as you live in this painful place, you come to learn that you must surrender to your grief, sit in your wound, and make space for your lost self.
12/21/2011 - Alan Wolfelt
Misconceptions about grief are common in our society because we tend not to openly mourn or talk about grief and mourning.
9/21/2011 - Alan Wolfelt
Someone you love has completed suicide. In your heart, you have come to know your deepest pain. To be bereaved literally means to be torn apart.
6/21/2011 - Alan Wolfelt
Your feelings of loss will not completely disappear, yet they will soften, and the intense pangs of grief will become less frequent.
3/21/2011 - Alan Wolfelt
As you approach the holidays, remember: grief is both a necessity and a privilege. It comes as a result of giving and receiving love.
12/21/2010 - Alan Wolfelt