Come Grieve With Me

Or Don't—If You Can't Handle It

I feel like I’m writing to an audience who doesn’t want to read my words. Which is me gaslighting myself. To keep in line with a society that is afraid of grief.

Not everyone is afraid of grief, so not everyone will need coaxing to want to read my words.

People in the middle of grief are often relieved when someone addresses the thing they struggle with most.

Because much of society suggests grief is bad and you will be ostracized for showing up in yours.

By ostracizing people who show up in their grief.

Which is why so few people do.

I am not like most people.

I thank a higher power for this every single day. Also genetics and neuroplasticity.

It is easier for me to do many things that are hard for others. Because I have been doing them a long time.

It is easier for me to show up in public and do things that are hard for others. Because I have been doing it a long time.

People still try to ostracize me when I show up in my grief.

People who cannot face their own grief do not like to be …