types of grief, the healing, the hurt, and the lost.
Anticipatory Grief, Complicated Grief, Chronic and Delayed Grief, Distorted Grief, Cumulative Grief, Disenfranchised Grief (Ambiguous)*, Traumatic Grief, and Inhibited Grief. These are all the forms of grief that I was diagnosed with after the loss of Taylor and dad. So here is a collective of things I've wrote since then. Healing Losing my sister and father in the same year was like the sky breaking in two—half of it gone to twilight, the other half to night. They were my compass and my constant, and when they left, it felt as though the world tilted, leaving me to find my balance in unfamiliar terrain. But grief, as heavy as it is, holds a strange kind of beauty. It teaches you the depth of love by showing you the shape of its absence. It forces you to remember not just the loss but the life—every laugh shared, every story told, every quiet moment of knowing you belonged to them, and they to you. I carry them now in the small things: the songs they loved, the ...