Tag: Grief

I’ve known people in my respective work, school, or other communities who have died recently. Two colleagues I worked very closely with died in the past year. It is very tragic, but I’ve never been the closest person to them. I wouldn’t have considered them in my circle of close fr...

Cry those tears. Express your pain. Feel your emotions that can fill your eyes and spill over, many times without warning. I don’t run from them anymore, wiping them away quickly in an effort to stuff them down really deep and pretend that everything is ok. I don’t will them back into...

August 9th marked 15 years since my dad died. I could tell you that it was a difficult, or sobering day, but that would be a lie. It was instead a rather uneventful day. I didn’t even realize it was the anniversary until I looked at the calendar. I would not have believed you if you’d to...

My dad died a year ago last month. In some ways it seems like a lifetime ago, in others it is as though it happened last week. It feels like the phone could ring tomorrow with the same news and I would nod my head and say “Oh yes, I have been waiting for this call. The past year was just a ...

My Dad died just over a year ago. A year of anniversaries and holidays, each occasion gaping with his absence. A full complement of seasons has presented itself; the southern hemisphere winter providing a chilling reminder of his last days with us. I’ve heard it said that you need a year to...

I’m abruptly pulled from the clutches of uneasy dreams as I am entangled in a restless dance upon a sea of sheets. In the thick embrace of the sultry southern summer, the heat clings to my room like an insomniac ghost, its tendrils refusing to loosen their grip. The unruly symphony of a storm ...

I have to admit something. I am a 30-something-year-old woman who is still trying to figure out this thing called life, but more specifically, this thing called adulthood. There are so many aspects of adulthood to navigate, such as family, social life, and love life, which all fall...

grief is a powerful emotion and the loss of loved ones can cause intense grief. The root cause of grief is sadness, which comes from the feeling of losing someone. Is grief solely linked to losing a loved one? Losing someone is not the only reason for feeling grief. I will discuss other reason...

August 9th marked 15 years since my dad died. I could tell you that it was a difficult, or sobering day, but that would be a lie. It was instead a rather uneventful day. I didn’t even realize it was the anniversary until I looked at the calendar. I would not have believed you if you’d to...

At the beginning of October, Jade took us novice trekkers to Sussex to visit the beautiful white chalk cliffs by the sea. We divided ourselves into two groups, and I had the (mis?)fortune of being led by Jean Michel, who pranced his way across the seven hills in shoes that looked like fins. Meanwhil...

In September 2018 my husband was diagnosed with terminal cancer. Since that time, both my parents, my aunt, my father-in-law and my husband died. My brother got divorced, I moved from one Manhattan neighborhood to another, bought all new furniture, and quit my job. I am using the power of my grie...

I know of this tree but I have never visited it personally. I’ve seen it featured on TV and in images and of course, it was in one of my favourite films where it became famous-Robin Hood and the Prince of Thieves When I saw it on its side on the BBC news this morning it took me a ...