Emotions and Grief

Throughout our topics, we have often referred to the range of emotions we experience along our journey. It seems one of the biggest emotions that has not been dealt with is opening up to the emotion of the loss of our Dad. This feels like something extremely: Major Scary Uncomfortable Unimaginable Unknown Please see Emotions […]

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Purpose and Grief

Sitting and thinking about life and existence. The word purpose came to our mind. Realising that having purpose is something that keeps us (my sister and I) going. Purpose gives a reason to be motivated and do the simplest thing as getting out of bed in the mornings. Without feeling there is a purpose, what […]

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Intellectualisation and Grief

Quite often my sister and I have stated the blog has become a part of our learning experience in our grief journey. We have discovered many things that we wouldn’t have been aware of had we not created this blog. We have become connected to many great people whom we wouldn’t necessarily had crossed paths […]

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Perspective and Willingness to see Beauty in Grief: Featuring Gina Lazzareschi

This topic came about from a conversation taking place between myself and Gina Lazzareschi (@gr8teful_gal_). We were having a conversation about our grief experiences, and something that Gina said about her story, was a very interesting spin on her situation. When talking about our grief stories and how we get through dark days, her response […]

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Prolonged Grief

This was not a planned topic when doing research for something else, we came across this term: Prolonged Grief. Something about this made us want to investigate further to see what this term was about and what it meant. We found a similarity that we could relate to and this is why we were further […]

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Family and Grief

Sitting processing our thoughts for a moment. Family and grief came to mind. We googled it and was pleasantly surprised by what we found. The feeling of family came to mind as: Within our family, although our parents divorced when I was 8 and my sister was 11, our unit remained close… Please see: Family […]

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