Soon it will be six months since Unraveling Together: Sharing the Threads of Grief officially became a published book. Often, it’s helpful to purposefully reflect upon one’s work and efforts. It may seem a little strange to do this here, in this space. Please give me a little grace as I celebrate this little bit of me that has become so important to me. Here are some lessons from my own personal Unraveling Together: Sharing the Threads of Grief journey.

Over time, I’ve thought about how I might condense grief into just a few words. This is really quite impossible. There’s just too much with grief. Grief is never a nice linear progression from one stage to the next. Nope, it’s a shift back and forth through a whole bunch of emotions and feelings. Because grief is so unique for each person, doling out hard-and-fast interpretations are risky. Yet sometimes thinking of something in easy-to-remember terms is so helpful. That’