Crying Out Loud with Dr. Laura Berman

When someone you love dies, you start looking for them everywhere. In dreams. In songs. In signs that show up at exactly the right moment. Anything that might tell you they’re still here somehow. But what happens when...

Have you ever had something happen after someone you love died that made you stop and think, Wait...was that you? A song at exactly the right moment. A dream that feels different from an ordinary dream. A coincidence...

When Sammy died, I expected heartbreak. I didn’t expect what grief would do to my brain. I couldn’t remember things. I couldn’t concentrate. Words disappeared in the middle of sentences. I would walk into a room and...

How do you keep choosing life when the life you loved disappeared in a single instant? In 2018, Colin Campbell and his wife Gail were driving home from a family trip to Joshua Tree when a drunk driver slammed into their...

Most of us are so afraid of grief that we push it away without even realizing we're doing it. We ignore it, stifle it, cover it up, and tell ourselves we're moving on. But loss doesn't ask for permission. It happens to...

When you lose someone you love, every loss asks something different of you. One goodbye can leave you heartbroken but standing. The next can bring your whole world to a stop. Sometimes grief gives you months to prepare...

Grief has a way of making everyone else uncomfortable. After the funeral, the messages slow down. A few days later, people expect life to carry on as if nothing happened. You're back at work. You stop bringing up the...

Some losses come with a funeral. People bring food. They hug you. They say, "I'm so sorry for your loss." Some rituals help you begin to make sense of what has happened. But some losses don't look like loss at all...

Losing your mother changes you in ways you don't always recognize at first. It isn't only the moment she dies that hurts. It's all the moments that follow. The day you instinctively reach for your phone to call her. The...

Grief has a way of splitting time. There is the life you lived before the loss, and then there is everything that follows. Somewhere in between, you find yourself asking questions that seem impossible to answer. How do...

What happens when grief doesn’t just take someone you love but the version of you that existed before the loss? Who are you then, and what do you do with questions you never needed before? Where is God in this? Is there...

Millions of people read Amy Krouse Rosenthal's final Modern Love essay, You May Want to Marry My Husband. It was a breathtaking love letter, a farewell, and an extraordinary act of generosity. Written from hospice just...

There are seasons in life when everything seems to shift at once. You lose someone you love. Your body begins changing in ways you don't fully understand. Your emotions feel bigger, your energy disappears, your patience...

There are ways we learn to disappear long before we realize we're doing it. Some of us become caretakers. Some become achievers. Some become peacemakers. We learn how to earn love, avoid conflict, meet expectations, and...

What if the people we love don't disappear when they die? What if the bond continues, even after death? And what if some of the people who have shaped our lives most deeply, including our children, were connected to us...