What Halloween Can Teach Us About Grief
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There is a concept called “thin space” in Celtic culture. It is considered to be a space where those who have passed are more “available” to us. This space can be physical, experiential, even metaphorical.Â
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This thin space can be terrifying, beautiful ...
How to Acknowledge Grief and Heal
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We live in a culture that tells us to “keep busy,” and “move on” when loss happens. Productivity is praised, even in our most painful seasons. But grief doesn’t disappear because we ignore it—it waits.
And while it waits, it builds.
Imagine a bottle of pop. No...
What grief looks like when you lose a pregnancy — and how to heal.
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When you're planning for a family, nobody hands you a manual for loss. No one warns you that the same body you pin your hopes to can feel like a traitor. And no one tells you how isolating it is to lose a future no one else ever ...
What to do when your adult child has died.
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No parent plans for this. We tell ourselves there’s a natural order to life: we go first, they carry on.Â
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When you become a parent, you don’t imagine burying your child—especially not after they've built a life of their own. You imagine watching the...