Inherited Grief

Book – Elizabeth Rosner, Survivor Café: The Legacy of Trauma and the Labyrinth of Memory

In her insightful and far-reaching book, Survivor Café, Elizabeth Rosner, a daughter of Holocaust survivors, writes about her search to understand her parents’ grief and its continuing impact on her family. 

Searching For Joy

Grief, Play, and Religion

Joy is really hard to muster when we’re grieving.

So is smiling. And if we let ourselves feel any joy, we then feel incredibly guilty for taking pleasure in something that our loved ones no longer can. In the beginning of grief, it’s a struggle just to get through the day.