Category: Grief experience

Grief experience 3 min read

What does grief feel like? Real perspectives on loss, healing, and remembering

Grief doesn’t look or feel the same for everyone. It can bring sadness, anger, numbness, loneliness, unexpected moments of joy, and everything in between. To better understand the many ways...

ForeverMissed September 15

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Grief experience 3 min read

Light: a story about grief, healing, hope, and finding your way back

The Little Lamp and Her Light Once upon a time there was an oil lamp who shone brightly where she had been placed and loved being a light. She lit...

Stephanie Dawson August 27

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Child loss 4 min read

Before and After Loss: How Grief Changes the Way We See Time

Sometimes grief does not just change how you feel. It changes the way you understand time itself. There is a moment when life stops being measured by ordinary dates and...

Maria Belanic August 17

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Grief experience 4 min read

The Loss That Has No Funeral: Grieving the Life You Imagined Part 1

We don’t only grieve people. Sometimes we grieve the lives we imagined, the dreams that changed, and the versions of ourselves thought we’d become. I don’t think I truly ever...

Dawn Dufresne July 9

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Grief experience 3 min read

Is It Normal to Feel Guilty When You Laugh After a Loss?

Mwelwa recently shares: “I lost my dad in 2022, and I was depressed for over a year. I’m finally starting to feel happy again, but I feel guilty whenever I...

Jan Warner June 29

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Grief experience 5 min read

How to Honor a Deceased Loved One on Their Birthday or Death Anniversary: 12 Meaningful Ideas

What is a person supposed to do on your deceased loved one’s birthday and anniversary of their death? It varies, as much as the people themselves do. The correct answer,...

Stephanie Dawson June 16

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Grief experience 2 min read

Finding Joy While Grieving

Have you done something since someone you love is no longer alive that made you smile, or made you feel like you were having a good time? Did the good...

Jan Warner May 30

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Grief experience 12 min read

Mother’s Day Hits Different Every Year

Feeling called to write about grief and gratitude on this Mother’s Day. Wishing everyone a day of feeling whatever you need to feel around your mom or motherhood or both.Losing...

Jeanette Brown May 12

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Grief experience 6 min read

How to Find Purpose After Someone You Love Dies

A lot of people have been writing on Grief Speaks Out that since someone they love died they feel dead too. Even after many years they still feel as if...

Jan Warner April 10

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Grief experience 2 min read

How to Navigate Grief: Finding Resilience and Moments of Joy

What led you to write about and work with people who are grieving? After losing my husband, sister, mother and mother-in-law within the space of 17 months, I found none...

Jill Smolowe April 6

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