08/30/2025
Today is National Grief Awareness Day - a time to recognize the myriad ways we experience grief in our lives and communities.
A time for education, remembrance & connection.
We acknowledge grief that unfolds - due to death, loss, separation, break-ups, estrangement, migration, displacement, circumstantial and seasonal changes, loneliness, and so much more.
My heart is especially heavy for families facing fear, anxiety and anticipatory grief around immigration that this time.
We know that grief hangs on for longer than we want, that's often so because it's tied to love.
Grief journeys with you through time, there's no special order, and no right or wrong way to grieve. Your grief is as unique as your fingerprint.
For *you* reading this right now and would like a pause:
I invite you to take a deep breath in, followed by another, and one more. Name what you're feeling, breathe it in, exhale. Hold the memory of your loved one and call up something about them that made you smile. Savor it. Breathe in and out, and once more, till you feel a release.
Holding space for you, your loved one/s, and all of us today.
