How to Accept a Loss Emotionally

There’s a difference between knowing a loss happened and actually accepting it. Most women who’ve lived through something hard already know this. Knowing is the easy part. Knowing is on paper. Knowing is what you tell people at the funeral, the divorce hearing, the doctor’s appointment, the last day at work. Accepting is something else. […]

Acceptance Stage of Grief

There’s a moment in grief that nobody warns you about correctly. It’s the moment people in your life start to expect you to be at acceptance. Six months in. A year in. Whatever timeline they’ve decided is reasonable. They start asking, gently or not so gently, if you’re at peace yet. They start expecting you […]

Building Confidence After Loss

Building Confidence After Loss

Loss does something to a woman that nothing else does. It empties her in places she didn’t know existed. It changes how she walks into rooms. It changes the way time feels, slow some days, fast in cruel bursts on others. It changes what music she can listen to. What recipes she can cook. What […]