Category: Grief And Loss

Grieving Awake: Will I Ever Feel Better?

9/2/2022

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Will I Ever Feel Better?

Today is my daughter Olive’s birthday; she would be turning ten years old if she were still alive. I’ve been thinking about her birth, her life, how much I miss her, remembering what it was like to hold her, remembering her laugh. I’ve also been reflecting on my own grief journey and asking myself—eight and half years in—“do I feel better?”

Grieving Awake: Our Collective Grief

8/19/2022

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Strangers Yelling on the Internet

It’s no secret that social media isn’t a pleasant place to be these days. It takes less than one minute of scrolling your feed to encounter arguments and insults being thrown. I used to be active on Instagram with a large following, but made the choice to step away from it a couple of years ago. It started to feel like being in a room with hundreds of people yelling over each other unintelligibly—not my idea of a good time!

Grieving Awake: The Wisdom of Surrender

8/5/2022

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Content Warning: child loss, death, cancer

Grieving Awake: The Myth of Closure

7/21/2022

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Our culture loves the idea of “closure” when it comes to grief. But would we ever really want closure after experiencing a deep loss, like the loss of someone we love?

Grieving Awake: Flipping the Script on Grief

7/8/2022

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"Triggers" As Opportunities to Grieve

Last winter, one of our mama bunnies happened to give birth the night of a cold snap. Temperatures plummeted to well below freezing, and despite being housed in the barn, and having worked diligently to pack her nesting box full of hay, all of her eight babies died by morning.

Grieving Awake: Embodied Grief, Part Two

6/24/2022

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This is the continuation of the original blog, Grieving Awake: Embodied Grief, Part 1

Turning Toward Grief

What does it look like to drop into our grief? What does it look like to allow ourselves to grieve in a fully embodied way?

Grieving Awake: Embodied Grief, Part 1

6/18/2022

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My Fear of Grief

I had no idea when I was preparing for the birth of my first child that the skills I was learning were the same skills I would draw on a mere 18 months later in order to midwife myself through my grief following her death.

Grieving Awake: When There Are No Words

6/3/2022

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Sometimes, in grief, there are no words to describe what we have experienced or the depth of the pain that we feel. There are just no words. I often find myself in this place, and it can be really lonely. I want to tell people how much I miss my daughter, how I’d give anything to hold her again, to go back in time to before she got sick. I want to say these things, but often I just can’t. It feels like too much and not enough, all at the same time.

Grieving Awake: Your Grief is Your Own

5/19/2022

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Content Warning: death and child loss