Grieving & Living
Day 38: Grieving and Living Many of my clients arrive worried they are either 1) not getting grief right or not grieving enough or 2) not...
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khatch73
Sep 1, 20211 min read
Grief Mornings
Day 37: The Mornings In grief, I often hear about that moment one wakes up to a pleasant fuzziness or comforting unknowing. This...
khatch73
Sep 1, 20212 min read
Guilt in Grief
Day 36: Guilt in Grief There are many ways we humans complicate our grief experience, and one that I see often is in our tendency to have...
khatch73
Aug 30, 20212 min read
Grief PSA for National Grief Awareness Day
Day 35: Grief PSA Knowing what to say and even more importantly, what not to say, to grieving people can be tricky. Even as a grief...
khatch73
Aug 29, 20212 min read
Grief is Physical
Day 34: Grief is Physical I have been searching for years for a worthy description of the physicality of grief. I have finally found one...
khatch73
Aug 28, 20212 min read
We Grieve @ every Developmental Stage
Day 33: Simply put, grieving at each developmental stage means grieving at each life transition. Such transitions might include marriage,...
khatch73
Aug 28, 20212 min read
Where does my Grief Belong?
Day 32: Where does my grief belong? With the current horrors and terror in Afghanistan, I have been asking myself a question that I hear...
khatch73
Aug 15, 20211 min read
Grief Pruning
Grief naturally places us in the rawness of life, begging us to reorient, reprioritize, and discern what fits and what does not. I...
khatch73
Aug 14, 20212 min read
Grief Fatigue
Fatigue in grief is like no other tiredness. It sits deep in the bones. I believe it is not the same as depression’s downward pull...
khatch73
Aug 14, 20212 min read
Continuing Bonds
It’s a thing in grief. In fact, most people, no matter if they are atheist or deeply religious, ache to remain connected with the person...
khatch73
Aug 10, 20211 min read
Cause to Celebrate...
Since grief does not show up as an outward, physical wound, grieving isn’t allowed the same grace or time that other physical ailments...
khatch73
Aug 9, 20212 min read
No Words...
In grief, words fail us. Often. They can fail us when you are the one grieving, as the intensity of grief is both so unique AND like...
khatch73
Aug 8, 20211 min read
Grief is...
Grief is hard to define and describe because it is directly shaped by our relationship to what or who we are grieving. And our...
khatch73
Aug 7, 20211 min read
Grief is Not a Disorder
Day 19: Grief is not a Disorder Grief is many things AND it is not a disorder. Grief is our innate biology working to navigate life...
khatch73
Aug 6, 20211 min read
The Wisdom of Children
Young children teach us adults so much about grief. As long as children are provided the space to feel their emotions (and yes, that can...
khatch73
Aug 5, 20211 min read
Waves of Grief
Grief comes in waves is an age-old adage and from what I’ve come to observe is this is still truth. In its natural, uninterrupted state,...
khatch73
Aug 4, 20211 min read
We Grieve...
We grieve for what we hoped could be, for what we hoped was possible. Grief arises with force when our hope for what was possible is no...
khatch73
Aug 3, 20211 min read
Grief is an Expression of Love
Our grief is deeply shaped by the nature of our relationship to the person or situation we are grieving. In fact, as hard as it might be...
khatch73
Aug 3, 20211 min read
Grief Prescription
Along with a proper grief name tag to wear, I’ve always wanted to have a grief-appropriate prescription pad. In acute grief, which is the...
khatch73
Aug 1, 20211 min read
If We Could Grieve as Salmon Live
Grief is the ultimate swim upstream. Growing up in the Pacific Northwest, I learned from an early age about the wonders of salmon. What...
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