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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?   

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What Grief is Not
Susan Cadell Susan Cadell

What Grief is Not

I am often asked to define grief. I have been thinking a lot about the improvisation (improv) principle of ‘YES, AND’ lately. The idea of improv in the performing arts and storytelling is that meeting any suggestion with a YES, AND then building on it, leads to creative spontaneity.

So what do grief and improv have to do with one another?

Photos by Tasha Lyn

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