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Love That Doesn’t Disappear: A Night of Grief and Legacy
Saman Azhar
There's this assumption that healing happens in isolation, that we need to figure out our pain alone before we can rejoin society, but sometimes the opposite is true. Sometimes we heal by witnessing each other's struggles, by discovering that our individual heartbreak is part of a much larger story.
Bad Things Happen to Good People
Chano Itwaru
We've all heard it: "Why would a God who is all-good, all-knowing, and all-powerful allow bad things to happen to good people?" Or, flipped around: "Why shouldn’t life contain pain, disappointment, and suffering? Was life ever meant to be perfect, free from challenges or loss?"
Giving Grief a Voice: How Grief Focused Podcasts Help Us Heal
Saman Azhar
In a world adamant on pushing through and hiding your emotions, grief focused podcasts feel like a breath of fresh air. They give the experience of having your pain acknowledged by someone who has walked a similar path.
"If" by Sarah Jeanne Browne
Sarah Jeanne Browne
“If” is a deeply introspective meditation on grief, love, identity, and the search for meaning in a chaotic world. Through a series of poignant “if” statements, the speaker wrestles with existential questions, emotional vulnerability, and the ache of loss.
Understanding Disenfranchised Grief: The Pain of Invisible Loss
Saman Azhar
Grief is never easy, but some forms of grief just hit harder than others. Not because they hurt more but because the world refuses to acknowledge them. This is disenfranchised grief.
The Layers of Grief: Mourning and Honoring the Loss of Father Figures in the LGBTQIA+ Community
Saman Azhar
A safe circle is created for the LGBTQIA community, a space to sit with the complex emotions that arise when the word 'father' holds both pain and yearning.
Living in the Spaces Between Words: A Cancer Survivor’s Story
Angela L Hoy
It was meant to be a different kind of year. In March 1998 we said our vows, held our dreams. My first marriage at 43. He was sick. I was well. We had a plan.
The Grief is Never Gone
Sarah Jeanne Browne
The Grief is never gone / Grief cannot be minimized / But it can be forgotten / Under the floorboards / Of the heart / Or flow with the sails in the wind
Faded
Brenda Mulry
I almost didn’t see you when you walked into the shop. Your second oldest, a daughter with long red hair, walked in before you. You were wearing black: a cap, suit jacket, pants, shoes, and a white shirt.
Coming Home to Joy: Writing for Healing
Wendy Brown-Baez
My path to joy would be years in coming, after death painted me into a corner. My grandson’s joy was as tangible as the sunshine after days of clouds and cold, a magnification of my own inner glow.
Elsewhere
Sarah Jeanne Browne
Where are you? /
You disappear; no longer here /
This year you are Elsewhere /
A rainbow that doesn’t end /
A trick of light revealing the unsaid /
A peace from the rain in my soul /
Our future sold to Azrael /
The Arts and Collective Grieving
Sheila K. Collins
Collective grief is stimulated by large scale losses and tragedies, some impacting people and communities far from the initial ground zero of the event.
Working with Difficult Emotions - Navigating the Collective Grief
Cynthia Phelps
The world feels heavy right now. Between the ongoing wars, devastating hurricanes, and the divisive political climate, It's no surprise that many of us are experiencing a range of difficult emotions, anxiety, overwhelm, sadness, anger and even numbness.
