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I know this might sound controversial. Or, at minimum, unexpected from a grief writer and therapist. If you’ve spent any...
03/31/2026

I know this might sound controversial. Or, at minimum, unexpected from a grief writer and therapist. If you’ve spent any time on or you’re probably all too familiar with messages about ‘healing from grief’. You’ve likely scrolled the hundreds of grief influencer videos promising to help you ‘recover from grief’ or ‘heal your grief’ via retreats, essential oils, coaching sessions, classes, and Facebook groups (all while making green juices in their pristine William Sonoma kitchens). ‘Unhealed grief’ and ‘unrecovered grief' are talked about like some sort of boogeyman, hiding under our beds waiting to grab our ankles and hold us down as we try to emerge from the rubble of loss.

Though people often as, how do I heal from grief, this is the wrong question. You don't need to heal your grief. Grief is the healing.

The finality of death is one of the harshest and most severe realities one must come to terms with after someone has die...
03/24/2026

The finality of death is one of the harshest and most severe realities one must come to terms with after someone has died. Unlike so many of the questions and ambiguities grieving people face, the truth that the person will not return is black-and-white - yet it feels unbelievable.

The finality of death is one of the harshest and most severe realities one must come to terms with after someone has died.

I remember when I first processed that fact. It was at a Compassionate Friends conference in 2014. A bereaved mom was sp...
03/24/2026

I remember when I first processed that fact. It was at a Compassionate Friends conference in 2014. A bereaved mom was speaking about the isolation of losing a child. She described years of feeling as though no one understood her grief, calling it a death “out of order.” She lived in a fog of “why me.”

The incredible progress of modern medicine means we’ve lost the foundational understanding that life is loss. Is that a good thing?

Well-known developmental psychologists like Erik Erickson and Jean Piaget say that our ability to trust begins to develo...
03/24/2026

Well-known developmental psychologists like Erik Erickson and Jean Piaget say that our ability to trust begins to develop in infancy. If, as babies, we have people in our lives who consistently respond to our needs for things like comfort, affection, and food, we can establish a general sense of trust in the goodness of the world, others, and ourselves that will aid us in having secure relationships throughout our lives.

Experiencing an inability to trust in grief is a common secondary loss that can have significant impacts, though it often goes unrecognized.

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