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 ...

Reba McEntire's For My Broken Heart was, indeed, a salve. At the time of its release, on Oct. 1, 1991 — 31 years ago today — the singer was mourning the deaths of most of her band in a plane crash ...

How alternative medicine propelled me forward after a devastating tragedy. On a crisp January morning in Northern California, our vehicle approaches the Victorian house where I will enter a mystical ...

“Music goes straight into the soul first, and so I knew that as a vehicle, it can be very healing,” says acclaimed singer-songwriter Melissa Etheridge. She proves this with her latest album, I’m Not ...

Reba McEntire‘s For My Broken Heart was, indeed, a salve. At the time of its release, on Oct. 1, 1991, the singer was mourning the deaths of most of her band in a plane crash that happened just over ...

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”: ...

Exactly a year before I found myself in the hospital, my father had died after a fall at home. Regulations required an autopsy. Afterwards, I had to identify his body before it could be released for ...

When my heart breaks, it feels like I'm drowning—it is pain so raw it seems endless. Yet this is no isolated incident; to be human is to love, and to love is to risk loss. We cannot separate life from ...

It’s not just the stuff of sad songs and tragic novels—broken heart syndrome is a real medical condition, and it turns out that men are more vulnerable to its deadly embrace. Sure, you might envision ...

"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 ...

Individual hearts break for a nearly infinite number of reasons, but the one constant is that everyone finds themselves heartbroken at some point in their lives. Whether it’s from grieving the death ...