VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — The death of 12-year-old Juan Acevedo has been devastating to his family, this community, and schoolmates at Larkspur Middle School. But among the challenges faced when a ...

Dear Eric: I divorced my wife after 25 years of marriage. After she went on some medication for depression, her personality changed, and she became unfaithful with a series of men. I never told my ...

As we inch toward the holidays, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Tracy K. Smith shares how she's processing grief, a subject at the center of much of... How to process grief during the holidays, according ...

If you are grieving, wondering where you are in the process can bring a sense of grounding and clarity. Psychology offers useful frameworks to help you understand your emotional state—but it also ...

In September, my mom died after a short battle with colon cancer. She was 83 and lived a full life in which she had a fulfilling career in education, traveled the world visiting 100-plus countries, ...

Loss and death are an inevitable part of life; how then do autistic people learn to process these events, given their own particular communication, language, and social challenges? How can autism ...

‘Exhibiting Forgiveness’ stars André Holland as a painter and family man grappling with trauma Roadside Attractions In playing a character grappling with trauma, André Holland achieved catharsis both ...

Many interactive installations at the annual XR Experience at SXSW offer a mix of the experimental and the emotional. But in 2025, few offer a wilder ride on these two tracks than Traces: The Grief ...

Inside a Browning High School classroom on an afternoon in May, about two dozen students watched a music video by Carcass, a deathgrind band formed in 1985. Deathgrind, as instructor Charlie Speicher ...

The term Gold Star Family refers to the immediate family of a U.S. service member who died in the line of duty. It's a term Oscar-nominated actor Virginia Madsen was all too familiar with even before ...