28/03/2025
GRIEF:
Grief can be such a complex emotion to navigate. Sometimes grief makes more sense like the loss of a person or a pet, but often it’s more complex like the loss of a dream, a relationship or a concept (like the ideal parent or childhood you deserved but never had), your independence, infertility etc.
There’s been a lot of talk of grief in the clinic over the past two days for a wide variety of reasons. I’m not here to tell you what grief is for you or how to manage it but I will say that it’s absolutely okay to grieve loss in whatever way best serves you.
You’re allowed to create traditions, you’re allowed to speak of things that have been lost, the way things could have been. You’re allowed to celebrate loss, you’re allowed to honour loved ones, you can create charities or fundraisers, you can plant trees, you can go to funerals or grieve quietly alone.
Today is my Nan’s Birthday. She’s long since left this world but she was single-handedly the most special person in my life growing up. I don’t mark the day she died, but every year on her birthday I still buy her a bunch of flowers. I can’t give them to her anymore so I buy them FOR her but I give them to myself. It’s a tiny tradition that I maintain because it feels special to me.
You’re allowed to grieve however YOU want.
Happy Birthday Nan 💐 🍫🍦
PS. Thank you to the Warragul Flower Shop for this beautiful arrangement today.
