I know it’s impossible to avoid having to experience just how kids deal with grief but I still can’t help but wish they didn’t have to, or that no one has to. But they are going to be exposed to death at some point and in some way, directly or indirectly. Even if everyone in your family lives long, healthy… Read More »How Kids Deal With Grief

I have been stalling on this article about surviving holidays with grief, even though at this time of writing it, the holidays are bearing down on us. I’ve been stalling on it because I don’t like the holidays. And why? BECAUSE OF GRIEF. My mother died in 2013, my husband in 2016, my grandmother in 2021. Even after all this… Read More »Surviving Holidays With Grief

It seems unfair that on top of grief, we may wind up mourning the loss of a friendship, too. A common experience that I hear about is the drastic change in what we thought were close friendships after we lose someone. Many of us completely lose friends during the grieving stage, whether it’s anticipatory grief or early grief or a… Read More »When Friends Abandon You. Mourning the Loss of a Friendship.

So, how does grief affect brain function anyway? I have seen on many medical and psychology websites (accredited ones) that grief literally rewires our brains. My therapist and psychologist has told me this as well. But to tell you the truth, I don’t really know completely because I’m not a doctor and I have no idea what the data and… Read More »Does Grief Affect Brain Function?

As you probably already knew, the change of grief can significantly alter everything about us. It can’t be helped, it’s too big a trauma for us to not be altered in some way. We didn’t ask for this change, of course, but there it is. I know I have changed a lot but it can be hard to describe to… Read More »Seeing the Change of Grief. An Artistic Timeline.

When grief has you firmly by its tentacles, especially in the early stages, the last thing most people care about is whether or not the house is clean. There’s this enormous chasm in their souls so what difference does it make if the laundry is done or the dishes are washed or the toys put away? But the subject of… Read More »Grief and Clutter. How Cleaning Gave Me Control.

If you’re visiting this page because you want to know how to help a grieving widow, thank you for looking for ways to support them after their loss. If you are a fellow griever, you know that there are many more comments and behaviors that will upset a widow than what I’ve listed here. But I chose the following for… Read More »How to Help a Grieving Widow by Not Hurting Them.

When I was trying to think about how to begin my very first post on a blog about grief, the question I most wanted to address right away was: is grief forever? I guess that’s because I’m many years out from loss now and yet…I still have moments in which it feels as though it just happened. Outwardly, I have… Read More »Is Grief Forever? Yes. No. Maybe So.

Hi there stranger but hopefully future friend, I am sorry for the reason that you are here. I am Nikki, the creator of Grieving Arts. One day, I may show my picture on this page so you know who is talking to you but I am quiet, introverted, sensitive and private and grief has made those traits a lot stronger.… Read More »About Me