Tag: Death

Grief Has No Timeline

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And It Doesn’t Expire When People Expect It To There is a quiet pressure around grief. In the beginning, the world allows space. There are messages.Flowers.Time off.Permission to fall apart. But slowly, gently, almost invisibly; expectation returns. You are expected to steady.To adjust.To move forward. As though grief operates on a calendar. It doesn’t. Grief […]

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Seven Years Later

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The anniversary is looming, a week today, and this has been playing on my mind more than I expected. It has been seven years since I was first sexually assaulted. The same year our Mark died. Sometimes people separate those events in their minds. I can’t. They live in the same year. The same body. […]

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What To Do When “That Day” Happens?

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Many people have asked me what to do, who to contact and how it’s expected for you to be when your person dies, so I thought I’d share what I’ve learned during the last 6 months. What to do? Be hysterical. Be calm. Be whatever you need to be. There are no rules when your […]

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