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01/21/2026

Food for thought 🧐

01/20/2026

Danny Daniels

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01/20/2026

Sue A. Arner

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01/20/2026

People often assume that grief shrinks or fades with time—that the pain lessens and eventually disappears.

But for many who are grieving, that’s not the reality. Grief doesn’t always get smaller. In fact, it can remain the same size, just as raw and present as the day it began. What changes is not the grief itself, but the life around it.

As time passes, new experiences, relationships, responsibilities, and joys slowly begin to grow and take shape. Your life expands—not because you’ve "moved on" or "let go" of the grief, but because you’ve learned to carry it differently. The pain is still there, but it coexists with other parts of you that have developed alongside it.

In the beginning, grief can feel all-consuming, like it fills every part of your existence. But as life gradually stretches around it, you find room for hope, connection, laughter, and even peace. The grief doesn’t vanish—it simply becomes one part of a much larger, evolving story.

This perspective can be comforting. It means you don’t have to force yourself to "get over" your loss. Instead, you can focus on living fully, allowing your life to grow around the grief, giving it space but not letting it define your entire world.

With thanks for the image below to: Lois Tonkin

01/19/2026

Grief will teach you things you never wanted to know.

It will teach you that life can change in an instant, and nothing will ever feel the same after it does.

It will teach you who can sit with you in the dark and who quietly backs away.

It will teach you that some friends will stay, some won’t, and that hurts almost as much as the loss itself.

It will teach you how isolating this can feel, even when you’re surrounded by people.

It will teach you that time doesn’t heal — it just teaches you how to survive with the hurt.

It will teach you how to drag yourself out of bed when you’d rather not, how to fake normal until you make it through the day.

It will teach you that love can split you wide open — and that you would still choose it, even knowing the pain.

It will teach you that the longing never goes away, it just becomes part of who you are now.

And it will teach you that there’s no going back — you build a life from here, piece by piece, with them always missing from it.

Written by: Aimee Suyko - In Their Footsteps

01/17/2026

“It changes you” …

01/17/2026

Paul D. Ramage

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01/17/2026

Sherlyn O. Hogenson

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01/16/2026

Excellent reminder 🎯🙌🏼

01/15/2026

❤️

01/14/2026

01/14/2026

Carol A. Czinki

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