As I have been sharing, grief is not just sadness. I wish it were that simple. I wish grief only meant missing someone and crying when their name comes up. But grief can reach into places you did not know could hurt. This is what many people call traumatic grief—the kind of grief trauma that […]
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Not Everyone Can Hold Your Grief—and That’s Okay
If grief has taught me anything, it is that loss does not only change the empty chair at the table. Sometimes loss is a relationship that ended, a friendship that faded, a version of life you thought you would have, or a person who is still living but no longer close. Grief changes the way […]