Grief Triggers: Traveling Into The Grief Unknown

Traveling in space you never know what you'll find. Sure there are some things you already know about, but what's scariest are the things you DON'T know about. The things we don't know about make it hard to prepare. Hard to know what we're looking at in our navigation screen. Hard to keep moving into...

The Astronaut That Found Her Air Supply: Anxiety & Grief

I promised a quick crash course about fight or flight/anxiety and grief in my last blog post, so here goes: Anxiety is a pretty big piece of the puzzle when it comes to grief. I've discussed my own experiences with anxiety and my unhealthy coping strategies I used for years before coming to a place...

The Astronaut That Lost Her Air Supply: Anxiety & Grief

Bumper to bumper traffic on 95, that's where it first happened. Actually, looking back it probably happened before that but I just wasn't self aware enough to recognize it. I was in school for social work at the time so I had a pretty good idea of what was happening. I diagnosed myself right there...

Waiting for Lift Off: Anticipatory Grief

You've finished your training, years of preparation and you're ready for your first flight into space. Strapped into a space shuttle, waiting for lift off, you're staring at a control panel full of buttons that you were taught to use, you know what they do and how they work. You hear the countdown and fear...

Griever to Ground Control: finding balance in accessing resources

When we've been launched into space unexpectedly with no tools or direction to navigate, we have no way of knowing what is up, or down or anywhere in between. This is grief.  In the midst of figuring out what direction we have to go, we're also tasked with rebuilding our life line our space ship....

10 things I wish I’d known about grief

So in doing my research for this blog post I recognized that there are a lot of lists similar to the one I'm about to write. However, I'm of the opinion that the more lists we have, the more information we have to help shift our thoughts on grief and the different ways we can...

The Unpredictable Packaging of Grief

I heard my voice but it was like I wasn't there: "If he dies, I'll die... I won't survive it". Then another voice came crashing in, "No, you wont die. It wont be easy, but you won't die" it was the voice of my best friend, gently reminding me of the cruelties of life. I...

Because grief is like a galaxy

It’s dark. It can be lonely. It’s wide open space that seems non-navigable. We can continue to break this down, and I will, but first I want to introduce myself. I am a person in grief, and I always will be. This is important to note because this is a point I really want to...