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Grief & Loss

“I am a motherless daughter, now fatherless too, but I am not without heart and resilience and grit.”

By Valeria Palmertree
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Raising Resilient Kids

“We decided he would be a boy with Type 1 diabetes, not a diabetic.”

By Monique Greene
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Grief & Loss

“I understand that this is what life is made up of. It’s the big sad events, right alongside the big happy events.”

By Sylvia Yam
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Grief & Loss

“I still miss my dad every day. But I think he’d be proud of what I’ve accomplished.”

By Genevieve Liu
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Raising Resilient Kids

“I can’t imagine getting through this without her. Even when I feel hopeless, I draw on her strength to keep going.”

By Jessica Segal
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Raising Resilient Kids

But you never let the heavy load you were carrying crush you. Instead every day you grew stronger. Every day brave and resilient.

By Sandra Began
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Grief & Loss

“In grief, there’s no need for answers.”

By Sarah Haufrect
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Grief & Loss

“I don’t believe grief ever goes away; it simply changes shape over time.”

By Jen Spencer Reid
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Grief & Loss

"Be grateful. Make it your mission to find something positive, even in the darkest places."

By Sharon McCloud
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Grief & Loss

“I will keep breathing in and letting out—strongly, deeply. For him. Grief is something to love.”

By Kristin Loberg
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Health, Illness & Injury

Grief may change some holiday traditions, but you can create new ones

By Robin Roberts
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Grief & Loss

“Just like maintaining your body weight, maintaining your grief weight is always a work in progress.”

By Steve Caldwell
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Grief & Loss

“It seems no one talks with raw emotion and humor about grief.”

By Laurie Grad
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Grief & Loss

"There was nothing worse than watching my parents struggle with their own grief, and being afraid to bother them with mine."

By Peri Smith
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Grief & Loss

“I picture grief as a vat full of tears hidden behind an opaque wall.”

By Julie Lythcott-Haims
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Divorce & Family Challenges

"Grief has overstayed his visit. I am done living in the dirt."

By Stephanie Sarazin
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Grief & Loss

“What I do know is that her death has taught me how I want to live—with joy, gratitude, adventure, and hope.”

By Becca Bernstein
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Grief & Loss

“Grief isn’t about ‘closure.’ Nor is it something to overcome or get past. It’s something to lean into, to embrace.”

By Arianna Huffington
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Grief & Loss

“Coping with grief is awful enough without adding the worry that your career has been derailed.”

By Amy Rowland
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Grief & Loss

“Grief is a long path, and I want to live it in peace for myself, my loved ones, and for my father's soul.”

By Daniela Felletti
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Grief & Loss

"We grieve because we love. How lucky we are to have experienced that love."

By Jahanvi Sardana
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Grief & Loss

“Grief is a process. Grief is a path an individual navigates at their own pace.”

By Dan Diaz
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Health, Illness & Injury

“When people show signs of giving up, that’s actually when they need you the most.”

By Paraag Marathe
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Incarceration

"I remain committed to defining my own future rather than allowing it to be" defined for me.

By Christopher Poulos
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Grief & Loss

“Two boys who have crawled out of darkness with grace and dignity and beauty.”

By Sandra Began
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Divorce & Family Challenges

“I am still terrified of the future, but I am a strong woman and I'll figure it out as I always do.”

By MJ Ricaurte
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Grief & Loss

“Someone is always going to have an opinion. It's up to you to acknowledge or ignore these opinions.”

By Kreithchele Barnard
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Grief & Loss

“The gift of information is the greatest gift you can give and receive when it matters most.”

By Barbara Sedoric
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Grief & Loss

“There is both a harsh reality and a profound wisdom in accepting that some losses cannot be explained or redeemed.”

By Rachel Roth
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Divorce & Family Challenges

“She just sat there and listened—and that meant a lot.”

By Leticia Velilla
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Grief & Loss

“On love and loss, but mostly on love”

By Janine Kwoh
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Grief & Loss

“Of the lessons Anita taught me, the greatest one was how to exit gracefully, on your own terms.”

By Lizzy Weiss
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Grief & Loss

“Trouble was created by an innocent child who had experienced profound loss.”

By Sheila Duncan
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Resilience

“It takes time, determination, and the effort to reinvent yourself. You will change; it’s inevitable.”

By Bobbi Huffman
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Grief & Loss

Spending the first Father’s Day without my dad

By Matt Scott
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Health, Illness & Injury

"I wasn’t afraid of my pain anymore, and that newfound courage permeated every facet of my life."

By Stefan Weiner
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Grief & Loss

“I needed an object, I decided... Something tangible to affix my love and my loss to.”

By Nancy Buffington
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Grief & Loss

“I can’t control what comes downstream, I can only try to manage the flow.”

By Carla Steckman
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Grief & Loss

“I instantly connected him to Leo. I felt that maybe the universe was trying to tell me something.”

By Marina Krim
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Grief & Loss

“I found we were now part of a sisterhood of sorrow, and were able to provide support to each other.”

By Bonnie Carroll
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Grief & Loss

"Sadness is still there. Yet I know now I can keep moving forward. I have survived the worst of worst years."

By Shona Johnston
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Grief & Loss

“Each day that I get out of bed, smile, and laugh with my family is a true gift that I don't take lightly.”

By Karen Peloquin
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Grief & Loss

“As I got better, I started to feel that it was time to give back.”

By Mariane Maciel
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Grief & Loss

"Having survived a tragedy, I now understand how to support others."

By Elizabeth Prives
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Grief & Loss

“When you go through a really hard time there are things that you can learn. And they make you stronger.”

By Gabrielle Reece
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Grief & Loss

“When we lose someone we love, we should remember that the person has not become nothing.”

By Kevin Krim
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Grief & Loss

"I remember what it is like to feel as if I am drowning. But I also realize that I am capable of kicking back to the surface."

By Catherine Jones
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Grief & Loss

“What you’re seeing is a woman who has accepted all of herself: wounds, scars, the failures, the triumphs, all of it.”

By Bozoma Saint John
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Grief & Loss

What I’ve learned over the 19 Christmases since my husband died

By Katie Couric
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Grief & Loss

“Transitioning from passive mourning to active remembering is key to building resilience after loss.”

By Allison Gilbert
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Grief & Loss

“It was a long journey out of the darkness, but once I discovered what my purpose was I began to heal.”

By Heidi Horsley
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Grief & Loss

"In a way, this past year has felt more isolating than my first year as a member of the 'Dead Mom Club.'"

By Cassie Glenn
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Grief & Loss

“There will never be a day, a memory, or a moment as revered as picking March flowers in February with my dad.”

By April Butler
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Grief & Loss

"There was no making this better. Neither of us wanted that."

By Paula Morris
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Grief & Loss

“The worst part is not mourning the loss of what you did have, but mourning the loss of what you were supposed to have.”

By Katy Dawson
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Grief & Loss

“I would find myself living a life with the unexplainable pain of an amputated heart.”

By Catherine Hand
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Grief & Loss

“The holidays were never about material things—they were, and always will be, about family and love.”

By Liz Prives
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Grief & Loss

“Thanks to my friend and her mom, I was saved from a pretty awful holiday—and found a husband.”

By Marisa Renee Lee
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Grief & Loss

“Taking action to put good into the world after suffering so much pain was one small way we began our healing process.”

By Alissa Parker
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Grief & Loss

“Leaving the hospital without your baby is not something you expect.”

By Anna Björnsdóttir
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Grief & Loss

“The biggest lesson I’ve learned thus far is to wake up each day and show up and be present.”

By Tricia Halbert
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Grief & Loss

“She's always going to be in our memory. She's always going to be in our hearts.”

By Kyrie Irving, as told to The Shared Grief Project
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Grief & Loss

"My mother was a remarkable woman. She was a fighter and hard worker and never complained about being tired or not feeling well."

By Joann Falciani
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Grief & Loss

“Sharing stories about Tony helps me to cope with his death. It’s a way to honor the man that he was.”

By Mary Dove
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Grief & Loss

“As an artist, I looked for creative opportunities to celebrate and commune with his memory even more.”

By Jennifer Orkin Lewis
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Grief & Loss

“Nothing compares to the comfort and care of someone who has been there.”

By Heidi Cinader
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Grief & Loss

“Our pain links us to one another, inspiring compassion and reminding us that we are never alone.”

By Suzanne Guillette
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Grief & Loss

“My friends’ love and support got me through it.”

By Steven McDonald
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Grief & Loss

Paying homage to my dad on Father’s Day

By Abby Fabiaschi
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Grief & Loss

“My dad discovered he had a son less than a minute before he discovered he had lost his son.”

By Byron Auguste
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Grief & Loss

“My calm, steady, happy husband was now missing a part of himself. I wondered: Does that part ever grow back?”

By Bridget Chambers
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Grief & Loss

“Maria has always had a special place in our family and she always will.”

By Laura Gould Crandall
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Grief & Loss

“Dear Rebecca and Casey, love really is as boundless as the sky.”

By Nancy Sharp
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Grief & Loss

"Resilience is found when you overcome the ego and let go, surrendering to a greater plan."

By Alison Fiorini
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Grief & Loss

“I’ve come to realize that our time and the time we have with others are limited. We don’t have a choice.”

By Antonietta Gutierrez
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Grief & Loss

"No one else felt the weight of carrying on family history."

By Amber Gross
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Grief & Loss

“It was never truly about a world with or without Kohen. It was about the 62 days I got to be his mom.”

By Jennifer Hetherington
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Grief & Loss

“It makes me feel great that my girls witnessed my resilience, and saw me build something for myself.”

By Stacy Feintuch
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Grief & Loss

"I felt that visiting there together was required—a further gesture to honour the place that both men have in my heart."

By Clare Smart
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Grief & Loss

“In only 14 years, my mom taught me everything I need to know for my life.”

By Wiebke Frömchen
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Grief & Loss

“We’ve turned the typical bucket list into a “f*cket list” and do things we would’ve otherwise passed on before.”

By Jason Fiorotto
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Grief & Loss

"If there was ever a reason why Zach died, maybe this is it: to show me that I can live in a way that is completely vulnerable."

By Jacob Yurich
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Grief & Loss

“I’d always been the moon to my mom’s bright shining sun. How do you live without the sun?”

By Christa Fletcher
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Grief & Loss

“She is more capable than she ever imagined she could be. She is a survivor.”

By Jill Goldstein
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Grief & Loss

“I try to use the negative emotions my kids and I feel as motivation to bring back something for my community.”

By Laurie Valdez
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Grief & Loss

"I look back and wonder how I survived knowing that he was dying. It was unstoppable."

By Christina Rasmussen
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Grief & Loss

“I don’t want to see my new path of finding what feels good and helping others as an Option B, but rather as my new Option A.”

By ute amann-seidel
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Grief & Loss

“I have to keep going for the kids, but more than that, I’m sustained by the thought that I mustn’t let George down.”

By Karla Reid
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Grief & Loss

“For anyone who has experienced a great loss or setback, you will laugh again, you will smile again, and you will find joy.”

By Hilarie DeNoon
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Grief & Loss

“And I don't want anyone to forget about Jesse. He isn't ‘lost.’ He was murdered.”

By Scarlett Lewis
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Grief & Loss

“How was it possible to go on with your life after losing all that you had known and loved?”

By Jacqueline Jules
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Grief & Loss

How to conquer loneliness during the holidays

By Patton Oswalt
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Grief & Loss

“To me, my mother defines resilience. She had such strong faith and was a very giving and positive person.”

By Mary Barra
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Grief & Loss

“Hilaria Baldwin: Why I Shared My Miscarriage in Real Time”

By Hilaria Baldwin
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Grief & Loss

“Helping other families gives us a focus beyond our own pain.”

By Isabel Hernandez-Torres
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Grief & Loss

“Surviving the death of your child is the worst nightmare of any parent.”

By Anal Shah
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Grief & Loss

“Even though I expected it, you can never prepare yourself for when it happens.”

By Charles DePalo
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Grief & Loss

“Diving into the wave voids the tumble of the crashing wave itself.”

By Tracey Blackburn
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Grief & Loss

Paying tribute to my lost son on Mother’s Day

By Robert Mehnert
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Grief & Loss

“My brother had led me back to the mountains — and the mountains had led me back to my brother.”

By Suzanne Ybarra
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