"Before I lost my father, I never understood the rituals surrounding funerals: the wake, the service itself, the reception afterward, the dinners prepared by well-meaning friends and delivered in plastic containers, even the popular habit of making poster boards filled with photos of the dear... Sign in to see full entry.
Wednesday, August 20, 2025
Tuesday, August 19, 2025
"Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air." - Pablo Neruda It can feel almost painful to be in the same place where you lived before your loss. Everywhere you look, some triggers bring you back to the time before the death of your loved one.... Sign in to see full entry.
Monday, August 18, 2025
"... [They] took it upon themselves to start the laborious process of cranking up life again, after death has stopped us all in its tracks." - Diane Setterfield What small steps are you ready to take to begin the process of recovering from your loss? Choose something you can do without fear, such as... Sign in to see full entry.
Sunday, August 17, 2025
"She always used to suspect that the price for happiness, the price for enjoying the company of a person you loved, was the steadily increasing risk of losing them, and at times, when she considered the possibility that she might lose Isabel or Clancy or, in the early days, Todd, Bernice didn't... Sign in to see full entry.
Saturday, August 16, 2025
"I think grief and fear are going to come to him suddenly. They'll be undiluted and words won't work. We're all going to get hit and won't know how to hit back. I wish I knew the answers, how to help myself and the people who will hurt all around me." - Kaui Hart Hemmings You may feel frustrated... Sign in to see full entry.
Friday, August 15, 2025
"I knew I was being an idiot. But I figured if I kept being an idiot, if I didn't actually accept the truth, then the truth would become false." - Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Sometimes, you need to "turn off" your grief to give your mind and heart a break. Go to... Sign in to see full entry.
Thursday, August 14, 2025
"Adam pressed his hand to his face. Sighed. "Right. It's just that... He died. And I'm so freaking angry..." - Kristina McBride, One Moment Do you wish you could still talk to your loved one? Record what you want to say, what you could have said. While you never need to play it back, the process of... Sign in to see full entry.
Wednesday, August 13, 2025
"We don't forget, but something vacant settles in us." - Roland Barthes, Mourning Diary When you are ready, creating a photobook, editing home movies, or crafting a scrapbook of memories of your loved one can be a way to build a lasting tribute to that person that will bring you solace in the months... Sign in to see full entry.
Tuesday, August 12, 2025
"There are silences and silences. None of them is like another. There is the silence of grief in velvet-draped rooms of a plush carpeted funeral parlor, which is far different from the bleak and terrible silence of grief in a widower's lonely bedroom." - Dean Koontz, Phantoms When the loneliness of... Sign in to see full entry.
Monday, August 11, 2025
"I think I am beginning to understand why grief feels like suspense. It comes from the frustration of so many impulses that had become habitual. Thought after thought, feeling after feeling, action after action had H. for their object. Now their target is gone. I keep on through habit fitting an... Sign in to see full entry.