A Journey Toward Healing the Heart I was in the shower the other day when I felt an overwhelming sense of sadness; my head started spinning, and I felt lightheaded. Here came the flood of tears; I cried myself to sleep. I felt alone because I am in Las Vegas for work and don’t have […]
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How Grief Forced Me to Reflect on Life
My Journey Toward Deeper Meaning Through Loss As the final days of 2025 slipped quietly away, I found myself reflecting on all that the past years had brought—joys, challenges, and, most profoundly, the loss of my sister. Each New Year’s Eve used to be a time for celebration and anticipation, but now, the turning of […]
Do You Know Someone Grieving?
How to Support a Friend or Loved One Through Loss This post is for people who have friends or family members going through a tough time with grief. I’ve come to understand that those around a person who is grieving might not know how to help, not because they don’t care, but because they might […]
Grief: Self-Pity and Self-Loathing
It is no news that grief has been a constant companion in my life, the loss of my sister; this was when everything seemed to shift beneath my feet. So far, I have written about how grief isn’t just about sadness or anger; now, I want to discuss the unexpected emotions that surface: self-pity and […]
When God Doesn’t Answer………………….
While chatting with two coworkers, our conversation shifted from one topic to another, and I shared my blog with them, discussing what it means to me and the reason I started writing about grief. They visited my site, read a few posts, and liked it. One of them asked if I had ever wondered why […]
Grief- Surviving and not Living
If you’ve been reading along with me, you know that at the end of every post, I always write that we are LIVING and GRIEVING. While scrolling through Instagram like everyone else, I saw a post about survival and not truly living. It made me think about myself and that statement, and I started to […]
The Grief No One Understands
I have been writing about losing my sister, and my last post talked about my daughter and how difficult it was for her to go into my sister’s house, and the time it took to convince her. Since then, I thought that now that we got the trip out of the way, it would be […]
Going Back to Move Forward
For the past two years and ten months, I have consciously avoided returning to Georgia, as it is where my sister resided. I left Georgia in October 2022, and since then, neither my daughter—whom my sister regarded as her own child—nor I have returned. While I am her biological mother, my sister played a significant […]
Finding Hope After Loss: Embracing Your Grief
In my previous post, I wrote about my mother’s experiences coping with grief following the passing of my sister. However, I did not mention that this was not her first experience losing a child; in fact, it was her second. Before my brother Benjamin was born, she had another son who transitioned when he was […]
The many faces of Grief
Grief manifests differently for everyone, and I’ve come to understand that it has many faces. I’ve experienced some of these emotions myself and have recognized them in others. Additionally, I’ve observed that some people have preconceived notions about how grief should look. Grief is deeply personal yet universally shared; it can isolate us while also […]