Grief touches our lives and pierces our hearts in various ways. Traditionally, grief is interpreted as loss through death, yet the reality of grief is that it can be over so many different things. Often these losses have nothing to do with death and yet may be incredibly profound yearnings for what was or what could have been. The term “living grief” is helpful for being able to name and validate such losses. In exploring the concept of living grief, we name the less tangible. This helps us to make sense of things.

You know those times when it just all feels like too much? Like you just want to crawl in bed and stay there? Or crawl down in a hole and curl up and be left alone? During these times the lack of sleep maybe is leaving you with a cumulative sense of exhaustion that envelops you, the isolation is taking its toll, and the grief leaves you devastated and heartbroken.