When Memories Hurt and Heal at the Same Time
Memories can be complicated after loss. A memory can make you smile and ache in the same breath. It can bring warmth to your heart and tears to your eyes….
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Finding Balance and Purpose: Moving Forward After Loss
For widows and widowers who are past the earliest shock, life after loss can feel like a daily tug-of-war between sorrow and the first flickers of possibility. Grief still arrives…
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When Grief Feels Heavy Before You Even Understand Why
Sometimes grief arrives before you have words for it.
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The Loneliness Grief Leaves Behind
Grief can make a room full of people feel empty. You may have people around you. You may have family, friends, coworkers, church members, or acquaintances who care. You may…
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When Grief Makes You Tired
Grief is exhausting. Not just emotionally. Physically. Mentally. Spiritually. Grief can make your body feel heavy. It can make your thoughts foggy. It can make decisions feel impossible. Grief can…
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The Grief No One Sees
Not all grief is obvious. Some grief does not come with a funeral, a casserole, a sympathy card, or people checking in. Grief happens quietly inside a person who is…
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When Grief Feels Heavier in the Morning
There is something about morning grief that can feel especially cruel. Before the day has even started, before your feet touch the floor, before you have had coffee or answered…
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When Grief Changes the Shape of Your Days
Grief does not only show up at funerals, anniversaries, holidays, or in the moments when everyone expects you to cry. Sometimes grief shows up in the ordinary. It shows up…
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Learning to Live With Loss Without Losing Yourself
Grief Changes You There is no honest way around that. Loss can change how you see the world, how safe you feel, how you trust, how you love, how you…
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The Quiet Grief of Life Changing
Not All Grief Comes From One Big Loss Not all grief comes from one big loss. Sometimes grief comes from life slowly changing. Children grow up. Parents age. Friendships shift….
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When Grief Comes in Waves
Grief Does Not Move in a Straight Line Grief does not follow a straight line. It comes in waves. Some days, the water feels calm. You breathe easier. You laugh…
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Grieving Someone Who Is Still Alive
When the Person Is Still Here but the Relationship Has Changed One of the hardest kinds of grief is grieving someone who is still alive. It can feel confusing, unfair,…
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The Grief of What Should Have Been
Some grief is hard to explain because it is not only about what happened. It is about what should have happened. The parent who should have protected you.The marriage that…
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When Grief Does Not Look Like Crying
Grief does not always look like tears. Sometimes grief looks like irritability, exhaustion, or forgetting what you walked into the room for. Then sometimes grief looks like being completely fine…
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When the World Keeps Moving
Grieving while life expects you to keep going One of the strangest parts of grief is realizing that the world does not stop. Your heart can feel shattered.And your body…
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The Strength of a Loyal Love
Honoring the quiet perseverance of my mother while grieving my Daddy There are some kinds of strength that do not look loud. They do not come with applause.And they do…
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The Strength I Saw in My Mom
When love keeps showing up in the hardest season There are some things you do not fully understand until you watch someone live them. Strength is one of those things….
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Watching Him Slip Away
The continued grief of losing Daddy before goodbye ever fully came. There are losses that happen all at once. Then there are losses that happen slowly. The kind where someone…
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When the House Feels Different
The ache of changed spaces There is something about grief that changes a house. The walls are the same.And the furniture is the same.The rooms are still where they have…
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The Ordinary Things I Miss Already
How grief lives in everyday moments Grief is not always loud. Sometimes it does not show up in the big, obvious moments. It can slip in quietly, through the ordinary…