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 ...

Broken heart syndrome occurs when part of the heart muscle weakens suddenly, causing the base of the heart to squeeze abnormally while the rest balloons outward. Unlike a heart attack, which is caused ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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”: ...

To the boys who broke my heart: I still haven’t healed from the time you robbed me of my first kiss. That night in your car, filled with exploited intentions, showed me exactly what a kiss shouldn’t ...