By Jamie Henderson-Warren Growing up I had never really dealt with grief or loss. At least not in the way I had imagined it to be. I thought grief was simply just being sad and missing someone. I was oblivious to the stages of grief until I had to embark on a personal journey […]
By Bindi Sawchuk I am the Grief Tendress… and it comes as a complete surprise to me, because I never wanted to be… I mean, who would? Right? I was a child who played with fairies in the forest and have always been deeply sensitive to things unseen. At the age of 14, I […]
By Beryl Young If there’s one thing I’ve learned through my story of life, loss, grief, and growth, it’s that perspective is everything. If you saw me today with my wild, curly pink mohawk, colorful wardrobe, and sleeve of floral and woodland tattoos down my left arm, you might think of me as a […]
By Shea Wingate In my early twenties, I pursued a Master’s in mental health therapy. While in school, I discovered a particular interest in grief work. Despite not having any real-life grief experiences, I was drawn to grief work and dreamed of being a full-time grief therapist one day. The universe listened to my dreams […]
By Emily Jones How does anyone do this alone? Survive this? Will I ever feel joy again without it being overshadowed by sadness? People don’t become a widow at 37… I’m going to feel so alone. Or so I thought. These things plagued me for several months in grief. Losing my husband of nearly […]
By Angie Hanson I write my feelings down and I share my stories because they matter. The people in my life who have died, they mattered and they still matter. My sole mission is to give hope to one person, to give hope to one million people. I want people to know that you […]
By Claire Fryer When my mum became ill and was diagnosed with lung and brain cancer, my world fell apart. I remember lying curled up in a fetal position on the living room floor unable to take it in. My mum had always felt like my best friend and my biggest fear had been […]
By Sarah Risser I was wrapped in a shroud of exhaustion. It was already the darkest time of year; the sun set late in the afternoon before most people sat down to dinner. Night after night for weeks, from mid-January through the end of that bitter, cold, Minnesota winter, I buried myself under blankets […]
By Jody LaVoie July 31, 2014, was just another beautiful, sunny summer day in the suburbs of Chicago. I would have never guessed when I woke up that morning and kissed my husband goodbye as he went off to work that it would be the day that the world would forever change for me, […]
By Jean Brunson For 279 days, grief has become a constant in my everyday life — a space where I was once familiar but not to this magnitude. My very first experience with grief was losing my grandmother at the age of 14. The matriarch of the family I’d have the honor of caring […]
