11/04/2025
After more than a month in my grief cocoon from my maternal grandma and mother passing away unexpectedly, I realized that being a therapist helped me know that my INTENSE, deep, and overwhelming feelings would eventually pass. It’s also reminding me that these silly but helpful behaviors probably won’t be forever things, but today they help. Sharing in case someone else needs this reminder too.
Walking my own grief feels parallel in a lot of ways to my first child and postpartum experience, a deep knowing that you will forever be different and that pull to want to keep your identity from before. Similarly, once you walk it, you have such a different understanding of it. I fear I have let down every single person I tried to support during grief.
Starting work back up next week and showing up on here as my capacity feels ok with.
❤ If you’ve experienced grief, particularly of a parent, what weird but helpful thing did you do?
