The Shape of Grief
Grief may warp your memories, but you can choose how you let it shape you after your person has died.
The (Non) Perks of Being an Introvert When Searching for Widow Support
Finding Grief and Widow Support Is Hard. You Don’t Always Know What You Need Because What You Need Is Always Changing.
The Girl with the Grief Ribbon
My grief feels like those terrible “waist trainer” girdles celebrity women wear. It wraps around you, hugging and tightening and squeezing your breath away, and you have no choice. It is also a terrible replacement for your person.
Grief Bombs
Almost two years since Daryl’s death and nine months since my mom died, I’m wondering how to have a new relationship with and to them?
A Few Tips for Surviving The Death Experience
I needed a break from grief, real, performative and instructive, and putting my toe into the death space seemed like a meaningful detour.
A little darkness
And now, because an extremely terrible most unlucky thing happened to me that elephant will always be in the room. I’m okay with the elephant, I’d gladly talk about the elephant all day and all night (its name is Daryl). But I know it’s hard for other people, and I think it’s because there is an even bigger elephant in the room which is that we are all going to die one day, and how do you talk about that without feeling like a real mood killer?
Grief and the Four Burners Theory
I think of all the hours I wasted worrying about that stuff and how I could have let it go and just enjoyed my time with Daryl and let go of the anxiety.