How the Words You Repeat Shape Your Life | Jon-David
My mother spent her life saying three things she never wanted to happen to her. I’ve spent years wondering whether the words we repeat eventually become instructions. How the Words You Repeat Shape Your Life | Jon-David My mother had a few things she said over and...
When Everyone Expects You to Be the Strong One in Grief
I had spent years learning how to command a room. Then my mother died, and suddenly I wanted to disappear into one. When Everyone Expects You to Be the Strong One in Grief By the time my mother died, I knew how to perform. Not perform grief. Perform, period. I had...
Caregiver Guilt: Why We Think We Should Have Known
One of the cruelest tricks grief plays on caregivers is convincing us that because we understand something now, we should have understood it then. Caregiver Guilt: Why We Think We Should Have Known There is a particular sentence grieving people seem to love torturing...
Why People From Your Past Come Back Into Your Life
I’ve had people from my past suddenly reappear after years—even decades. I used to wonder whether that meant we were supposed to begin again. Now I wonder whether they simply came back to finish something. Why People From Your Past Come Back Into Your Life I believe...