“Redirecting Grief Into Volunteer Work (Like Bethenny Frankel) Can Be Life Changing” 

Personal Space spoke with New York based grief counselor Jill Cohen, who applauded Bethenny's efforts to help others to help heal herself. But, remember to care for yourself, she adds. Cohen has specialized in bereavement counseling for adults and children, and has worked with hundreds of children at Comfort Zone Camp, the nation’s largest bereavement camp for children. 

How can volunteering or doing charity work help a person through grief?

"It can give the griever a sense of fulfillment, of purpose. Even a sense of 'giving back to others' if the grieving person experienced much help and support from others during the illness or circumstances which preceded the death of his or her loved one," Cohen says. "It may be considered a way of acknowledging how important was the help that his or her family received either before a death, during, or right afterwards. It is a way of showing that they appreciated the help so much that they were inspired to do it for others, too. A true way of putting that gratefulness into motion, or action. This can help people find some fulfillment in the time of grief, as long as it does not become the focus of life in a dominant way."