Gary Sturgis

Gary Sturgis has become one of the leading voices in the field of grief support. With eight books on grief and loss, including his international bestseller, SURVIVING GRIEF – 365 Days A Year, Gary has been healing broken hearts for many years. With a social media following of over 416,000 on his SURVIVING GRIEF Facebook page, Gary shares different aspects of grief, loss, and healing in the aftermath, which receives over 20 million views a month. With compassion and empathy, Gary Sturgis speaks about grief in an honest and straight forward way and finds it an honor to walk alongside those that are struggling with the feelings and emotions that are part of the process of grieving. People are his priority, and Gary has touched many lives with his immeasurable capacity to listen to the heart cry behind the words. Gary Sturgis lives on the ocean in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

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Missing Mom On Mother’s Day

I’ll be honest…I’ve been struggling what to say and write today. It’s because today is a day of celebration for so many, yet for so many others, this day comes packed with a punch to the gut and heart. Mother’s Day is about Sunday brunch, flowers, cards and family gatherings. It’s a day that’s filled with the celebration of life, love, happiness, gratitude, hugs and joy. But for some of you…it’s just another day living with a broken heart. There are so many different reasons (way too many for me to list in this blog) why this one day of […]

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Some Souls Weren’t Meant To Stay Long 

I’ve come to believe that some souls simply aren’t meant to stay here long. And I don’t say that lightly. It’s not something I understand in any earthly way, because truthfully, I don’t. There’s no logic that can explain why someone we love so deeply could be here one day and gone the next. If there’s a reason, I wish I knew it. But I don’t. What I do believe is that we’re each sent here to touch certain lives. To love certain people. To leave imprints that carry on long after we’re gone. Maybe our time, no matter how […]

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From Married to Widowed: Can You Know How I Feel?

From Married to Widowed Shortly after the death of my spouse, I was filling out a form at the bank. One of the questions was what my “status” was. In the past the answer was “married,” but now I was being asked to check the “widowed” box. I could not bring myself to check the “single” box because in my heart I had not yet gone from married to widowed. So, I did what any normal griever would do in that situation: I started to cry. The teller asked me if I was okay. Did I need anything? The response […]

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‘Why Me?’: Surviving Partner Loss

Daily Reminder of Surviving Partner Loss   I was at the post office picking up the mail a couple of weeks after my loss. It was always such a painful experience since Rob was dead but continuing to get mail. Each envelope and package addressed to him was a gentle reminder of my loss.   An elderly neighbor came in and told me how sorry she was for my loss. She said, “Don’t worry about it. You’re young. You’ll meet someone else.” At the time I was still so raw in my grief and could not imagine such a thing […]

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