At sixteen, I believed my best friend and I would one day live side by side. Our gorgeous families separated only by dreamy white picket fences. A romantic suburban euphoria. By the time I was ...

"I have a space in my heart that never closes." Source: Larry Carlat A little more than four years ago, my oldest son Rob shot and killed himself. He was 28. He suffered from depression, bipolar ...

Unfortunately, one way or another, everyone experiences a broken heart at some point in their life. If you’re lucky, then it’s a rare experience, but that doesn’t make heartbreak any less painful. The ...

At the sight of anything that reminds me of her, I say hello, or want to give it a high five. Sometimes I say a prayer that we’ll talk again. Other times I queue up Joni Mitchell’s “Both Sides Now”: ...

The most common signs and symptoms of broken heart syndrome are angina (chest pain) and shortness of breath. [File, Standard] The heart, for many years has been thought to be the home of emotions ...

While on a family vacation my husband died unexpectedly. A couple of weeks after the tragedy, my symptoms got better, but that's not the case for everyone. I witness our six children navigating the ...