7 days ago
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3 min readThe Other Griefs(+ journal prompts)
Dear Friends, As my younger son, Desmond, begins his senior year of high school, I am reminded of the non-death-related grief we experience throughout our lives and carry with us. Some of this grief comes in the form of secondary losses from the death of a person, like the loss of our identity, the loss of future plans, and the loss of hopes and dreams we had for them. Then there are non-death losses such as divorce, the end of a friendship, property loss, a decline in our health or the...