What is Grief, really? Someone told me once that grief is love with nowhere to go. I've been thinking about that ever since. Because if it is true - and I believe it is - then grief isn't a problem. It's proof. Proof that someone mattered. Proof that what you had was real. And when grief shows up - quietly at the kitchen table, or loudly in the middle of a perfectly ordinary afternoon - we often don't know what to do with it. We wonder if we doing it wrong. We wonder

You ever notice how grief makes people feel? Someone finds out you've lost a loved one, and suddenly they forget how to ] be human. They panic. They reach for cliches like they're life preserves. "Everything happens for a reason". "You just need time to move on". "They're in a better place". "At least you ha

When someone is gone, their absence takes up space. Let's talk about what it feels like when the chair stays empty. There's a chair at the kitchen table that nobody sits in anymore. Maybe you've move it. Maybe you can't bring yourself to. Maybe you still set a cup of coffee there out of habit - and then stand there for a moment, not quite sure what to do next. That's grief. Not dramatic. Not loud. Just a chair. Just a cup. Just the unbearable ordinariness of an absence that s