Most people worry about supporting someone who is grieving because they are afraid of saying the wrong thing. The harder truth is that what you say matters far less than whether you stay. This is about the well-meaning things people say that quietly communicate a grief should be resolved rather than witnessed, why presence and
Grief is not reserved for death, even though almost everything written about it assumes a funeral. You can grieve a relationship that ended without anyone dying, a job that defined you, a future you spent years expecting that will now never happen, or a person who is still alive but no longer reachable. This is
Grief does not move in a straight line, no matter how much people expect it to. It arrives in waves, sometimes with a clear trigger and sometimes with none at all, and a wave returning months or years after a loss does not mean you have gone backward. This is about why grief in waves