How to show up for a friend who’s grieving   I’ve been getting this question quite a bit lately so I thought I would write a blog post about it. And I love that people are trying to show up well for their friends and relatives. It says
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We all want to show up well, but sometimes we are at a loss at how. This post is filled with very applicable ways of showing up for someone who has lost someone. Ideas and some “what not-to-do’s”.

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     10 Years Later: thoughts on grief after losing a spouse   Ten years. This month marks 10 years.  It’s a number that feels both impossibly large and heartbreakingly small. Ten years since I lost my first husband—the father of our four c
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Ten years. It feels like both a lifetime and the blink of an eye. A decade since I lost my first husband, the father of my four children. Grief doesn’t disappear with time; it changes shape, softens at the edges, but stays tucked into the corners of our lives.

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     Things I’m Loving Lately: Small Joys That Are Filling My Cup   For a long time, I felt like my entire identity was wrapped up in cooking, cleaning, and chasing toddlers around the park. And while those moments still hold so much goodne
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Learning to notice and savor the small things that add joy to my days.

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