Grief is so competitive. When I first started doing this work and started to share my own losses the people with ‘bigger’ tragedies than mine would send me a lot…
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I wish I personally knew you. I wish we could take our dogs for a walk together. I wish I was there when your loss took place and listened to…
There were no whispers, no words, nor any kind of guidance about all the other things that would happen after he died. Nobody mentioned the silence. The loss of financial…
“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same…
I don’t think people like to hang out with people who are sad. Who have failed. Who have a bad week. Month. Year. Now imagine how many people want to…
Loneliness lives in this deep central place in the universe. It walks into the homes of women and men. It breaks into their hearts. It says their words. It cries…
I might not have witnessed the most tragic losses of our time but I have been a witness to thousands of mourners and I come away with one truth. We…
You are a writer, a phenomenal, mind blowing writer born to write up a universe. Born to put words together like a big ocean. Like a mountain. Like a human…
I wish you could see yourself through a new set of eyes. I wish you had a new human to see you and then tell you about you. Tell you…
When people reach out to me — through social media, through email, through letters, or face to face conversations — they rarely describe their experiences in terms that a clinical…
