Grief After Estrangement: Healing Complicated Relationships Through Ritual & Creativity What happens when someone you were estranged from dies? Grief after estrangement can bring layers of emotion — sadness, anger, relief, regret, gratitude — sometimes all at once. When a relationship was complicated, the grieving process can feel confusing and isolating. In this episode (GRIEF […]
Nobody hands you a manual when someone dies. You’re just supposed to figure it out. And most of the advice out there? It’s vague, it’s generic, and honestly — it doesn’t help. That’s why I love asking our GRIEF Ladies guests to share one practical coping tool that has actually made a difference in their […]
What if the connection doesn’t have to end when someone dies? That’s exactly what we explored in Episode 26 of GRIEF Ladies: A Guide to What Comes Next with our guest April Hannah — licensed therapist, intuitive healer, and someone who has spent over 26 years helping people heal in ways that go far beyond […]
What could learning to swim possibly have to do with grief? More than you’d think. In Episode 25 of GRIEF Ladies: A Guide to What Comes Next, we welcomed Cori Myka, founder of Calm Within Adult Swim, and the conversation took a turn we didn’t expect — in the best possible way. Fear. Overwhelm. Not […]
Grief doesn’t end the love. And for so many of us, it doesn’t end the celebrating either. One of the questions I get asked most in the grief community is — Is it okay to still celebrate someone who has died? Their birthday. Their favorite holiday. The little everyday moments that used to belong to […]
Recently, Karyn and I were doing a live for our GRIEF Ladies Facebook Community and we were asked this question: “My husband died five years ago, but I feel stuck and frozen. I understand that grief doesn’t have a timeline, but I can’t seem to make any progress with moving forward. I don’t care about […]
There is a pretty well-accepted theory on grieving that the first year is the hardest. The loss is so new, the first months can be spent in a blur of shock and disbelief. This can be especially true for a sudden loss, but can surprise people when they are in “shock” even after a loved […]
A Free Online Workshop from the GRIEF Ladies You have people in your life who love you. And somehow, you still feel completely alone in your grief. They say the wrong things. They move on too quickly. They ask how you are doing, and you say “I’m fine” — because what else are you supposed […]
When speaking with a person who has recently lost a loved one to a long illness, I often hear them say “I’m just relieved that she’s gone.” And this statement is almost certainly followed with something like: “It’s just that she was suffering for such a long time. I love my mom, but for those […]
Lazy. Such a strange word in the way that it can be used so differently throughout our lives. A lazy coworker or teenager can be a terrible source of frustration but a lazy Sunday can be one of our greatest joys. In grief, I find it works a little differently. So often I speak with […]
