Category Archives: Loss and Grief

On Standby (I don’t feel anything anymore)

If you’re going through the motions but feeling nothing inside, if the world feels like [...]

Bargaining (the bargaining stage of grief)

If you’re caught in the “what if” loop – replaying conversations, making desperate deals with [...]

Living in Denial (when you know the truth but can’t face it)

We’ve all been there – pretending everything’s fine when it’s not, building stories that make [...]

Nothing Like Wisdom (when healing gets ugly)

I used to think healing would at least feel like progress. That if I was [...]

I Stay (loss & healing)

Some stories don’t end with closure. They end in silence, in undone conversations, cold coffee, [...]

Listen to This Before Sleep (a different kind of sleep meditation)

Sometimes you just need to be held. Tired. Human. The night is long.I needed a [...]

A Patch Job I Can’t Turn Away From

Pain. It finds every patch job, every place I spackled smooth and called finished. It [...]

Interruption (sitting with grief)

But grief,  grief isn't a story. It's interruption. When the plot falls out of my [...]

Writing for Healing (how words help process grief & trauma)

Some days, the only pulse I can find is the scratch of a pen across [...]

Lost (not recognizing myself after loss)

You’re standing at the sink, or passing a window, or catching yourself in the rearview [...]

Misfiled

I wake up and my chest is already running. Like it’s trying to sprint out [...]

Receipts (grief triggers)

A grief triggers poem about the everyday receipts grief leaves behind: dates, drafts, drawers, and [...]

Dissolved (what cancer couldn’t touch)

Cancer Happens to Other People The doctor didn’t ease into it. No gentle lead-up, no [...]

Once a Dream Was Mine…

Once a dream was mine, I held it firm in my hand, woven tight with [...]

Naming (grief, love, finding your voice)

Naming doesn’t shrink pain, it makes it portable, externalizes what’s crushing you internally… Some feelings [...]