Tag: grief
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The Question and Guilt I Carry
There’s a question I carry quietly, one I rarely say out loud because it feels too heavy, too harsh, too cruel to speak into the world: Did I kill my mother by allowing the doctor to give her medication to keep her comfortable at the end? Grief has a way of twisting itself into guilt,…
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Grieving My Mother on Mother’s Day
Mother’s Day used to be simple. It used to be flowers and cards. It used to be whatever small gift I’d picked out for her. It used to be her laugh that warm, familiar sound that made the whole day feel right. Now it’s something else entirely. Mother’s Day is now a day I brace…
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How Therapy Can Help You Navigate Grief
One day life feels familiar, and the next it can feel like the ground has shifted beneath your feet. Whether you’re mourning the loss of a loved one, a relationship, a job, or even a version of yourself, grief is deeply personal and rarely linear. It can be overwhelming, confusing, and isolating. But you don’t…
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🌫️ Living Without Parents: The Grief That Doesn’t Announce Itself
There’s a strange quiet that settles into your life when you no longer have living parents. It isn’t loud like the early days of grief, when everything feels sharp and unbearable. It’s softer, more like a draft that slips under the door easy to ignore until it chills you. People assume the hardest part is…
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She Told Me She Had Her Wings: A Week Before her Goodbye
Life has a way of splitting everything into before and after. For me, that moment came a week before my mother passed, when she looked at me with a calmness I didn’t understand and said, “I just received my wings and I will be on my way soon.” At the time, I didn’t know how…
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When the Caregiving Ends: Grieving the Loss of a Loved One
Grief is not simple. When you’ve spent months or years, as I have as a caregiver pouring your energy, and love into someone else’s well-being the loss hits differently It’s more complicated. It’s not just the absence of a person. It’s the sudden silence after a journey of routines, responsibilities, accomplishments and setbacks. It’s the…
The grieving caregiver 