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Healing the Loss Grief can feel isolating. I offer compassionate support, practical tools, and education to help you navigate loss and integrate its impact into your life.

Support • Navigation • Education I made this page to be a gentle and compassionate place for people who are going through loss of any kind. I will share other pages and writers whose thoughts and experiences resonate with me, and hopefully with you. www.healingtheloss.com

14/04/2026

The calendar knows things your body already felt.

You start feeling off days before the actual date. Something shifts in your chest. Your patience thins. Sleep changes. And then you realize what's coming.

The anniversary. The birthday. The date that used to be just a day and now carries everything.

It's not just the day itself. It's the whole week around it. The buildup. The aftermath. The way time bends around the dates that matter most.

13/04/2026

“It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.”
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

Joan Brull - Dream, 1905.

10/04/2026

(And gone can mean a lot of things . . . ). These internet holidays like “sibling day” sure can creep up and bring all the feelings when you least expect it. Thinking of anyone grieving a sibling today. 💔

Yes. It is the grievers who understand how it feels when people stop talking about their loved ones. How heartbreaking t...
08/04/2026

Yes. It is the grievers who understand how it feels when people stop talking about their loved ones. How heartbreaking that is to feel they are not remembered. It will be those that understand loss who think to ask.
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08/04/2026

Survival in Early Grief Has a Very Small Circumference. It’s Not an Ordinary Time, and Ordinary Rules Do Not Apply.

08/04/2026

One helpful way to understand grief comes from Lois Tonkin.

Tonkin’s theory challenges the idea that grief fades, resolves, or disappears with time. Instead, it suggests this: grief stays the same size, but life grows around it.

In the beginning, grief can feel all-consuming. It takes up everything. Over time, new experiences, relationships, routines, and moments of meaning slowly expand the space around the grief. The pain doesn’t vanish. It’s just no longer the only thing present.

This matters because it removes the pressure to “get over it.”

If your grief still feels heavy years later, that doesn’t mean you’re stuck.
If moments of joy coexist with deep sorrow, that doesn’t mean you’re betraying your loss.

Grief doesn’t ask to be erased.
It asks to be carried, alongside a life that continues to grow.

Both can be true at the same time.

Holidays of any kind can be difficult. If that is the case for you this long weekend please tend to your grief with comp...
04/04/2026

Holidays of any kind can be difficult. If that is the case for you this long weekend please tend to your grief with compassion.

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02/04/2026

“You were loved” is the truth of a life that mattered.
“You are loved” is the reality that nothing, not even death, can take that bond away.
“You will always be loved” is what remains when everything else has changed.

For those grieving, this isn’t always comforting. Sometimes it hurts more. Because if the love is still here, then so is the absence. So is the longing. So is the constant awareness that someone who should be part of your everyday life is gone.

But it also means something else. It means the relationship didn’t end either.
Love never ends.
It stays.

There comes light and laughter after the dark. There are colours after the grey. There comes hope and promise and love a...
02/04/2026

There comes light and laughter after the dark. There are colours after the grey. There comes hope and promise and love and stability after the shattering.
The truth also holds that within and alongside , there may be a wound so unfathomably deep it is untouched by the healing hand of time and distance. A wound so lightly scarred over that it takes very little to reopen the pain and to be brought immediately to the place of life changing loss.
The pain and the hope exist together. Give them both your attention,acknowledgment and love.
~Hilary Scott

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01/04/2026

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I made this page to be a gentle and compassionate place for people who are going through loss of any kind. I will share other pages and writers whose thoughts and experiences resonate with me, and hopefully with you. I will add my own thoughts on things, as one with a ton of experience with loss-I get it.

I will occasionally remind you of my website and the fact that I offer one on one support as well as Grief Retreats in the beautiful town of Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia. The link to that information is below.

Empathy, compassion, kindness to yourself and others...and a good laugh. Lets share and build on these fundamentals together in this caring community.

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