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Welcome to the Grief Matters blog. We intend for this space to provide an opportunity for the Grief Matters community to write, read, share, and reflect about ‘all things grief.’ At Grief Matters, we understand grief as the experience of loss. This loss could be a death (a human, an animal). It could also be the loss of something else: your health, a job, an opportunity, a future goal, or dream.
While grief can look and feel different to every individual, we live our grief within our social networks and in our communities. We feel that community matters deeply to the experience of grief. So, we invite you to share with us in order to help create more grief-attuned communities.
How does grief matter to you?
What grief matters are important to you?
Email us your ideas about how you could contribute to the Grief Matters blog. Please see our guest bloggers guidelines.
Read about the foundations of grief literacy here
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Why is grief so uncomfortable to talk about?
I lost my mom when she was only 59 years old. She was too young to leave this world, and I was too young to lose her. There were months and months filled with crippling pain, the kind that completely takes your breath away. I would wake up and realize all over again that my mom was gone forever.
Photo of a rose bush Amanda planted in memory of her mother. Look at the heart on the leaf!
What is grief literacy and why does it matter? Grief literacy is a concept that was born in 2018 at a gathering in London (Ontario, Canada). At that meeting, a small group of people who are part of the International Work Group on Death, Dying, and Bereavement imagined together how civic action could create a grief-attuned world.
Photo by Neil Thomas