08/30/2026
August 30 is National Grief Awareness Day – a reminder that grief doesn’t follow a schedule, and there’s no single “right” way to move through it.
One strategy Molly Mahoney, LCSW, developed while working with cancer patients and their loved ones at Mayo Clinic is called 𝗛𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲. The idea is simple: intentionally set aside time to acknowledge your grief, rather than feeling like you have to process every wave of emotion the moment it appears.
During that time, you might journal, talk to someone you’ve lost, revisit memories, or simply sit with whatever comes up. Then, when grief surfaces at another point in the day, you can recognize it without having to drop everything to process it right then.
Grief deserves space. It also deserves patience. 💙
Read Molly’s full strategy for processing grief & loss at https://truetherapyaz.com/honoring-time-strategy-to-process-grief-loss