Tag: losing a loved one

“Everyone assumes that life is a given, but you and I know that it’s not. You and…

There is no more ridiculous custom than the one that makes you express sympathy once and for…

Nothing makes you hungrier or more tired than grief. When my sister died, God rest her soul,…

People think grief somehow fades with time. “Time heals,” they say. What a crock. There’s no cure…

Grief is forever. It doesn’t go away; it become part of you, step for step, breath for…

What no one told me about grief is how lonely it is. No matter who else is…

The expectation that we “get over” or “move on” from a profound loss or crisis is not…

Losing a loved one is torture, especially for those left behind. They say time heals all wounds….

The dead leave their shadows, an echo of the space within which once they lived. They haunt…

Sometimes, with the best of intentions, friends don’t know how to help. They may feel that to…

What we have once enjoyed, we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes part of…

All I know from my own experience is that the more loss we feel the more grateful…

Grief is a journey, often perilous and without clear direction. The experience of grieving cannot be ordered…

The path to healing from a loss is different for each person, one which may have many…

When someone you love dies, it is as if you have been thrown into an abyss so…

Grief taught me to live numb. Death takes more than just the one life. It thieves tiny…