October 2026

The phone rings at an unexpected hour, and your heart sinks. Someone you love doesn’t answer a text, and your thoughts begin racing. They’re running late, and before you know it, your mind has imagined an accident, a hospital, or another phone call that changes everything. Have you found yourself doing this since your loss—imagining the worst, worrying when someone doesn’t answer, or feeling afraid that something else might happen? There’s a word for this: catastrophizing. It