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We all know grief doesn’t follow a timeline or a linear path, and it doesn’t take a break for the holidays. That’s why self-care is especially essential during this season. Taking gentle care of your emotional, physical, and mental well-being can provide much-needed space to process and heal.

What if exercising gratitude was like exercising a muscle? What if the more we used it, the stronger it became and the easier to tap into?  Gratitude has allowed me to reframe my relationship with grief and the people I have lost. Instead of focusing on what I no longer have, I choose to be grateful for loving them and grateful for the impact they had on my life. I am grateful that they still live within me and for the lessons they taught me.

Kintsugi, is a traditional Japanese art form dating back to the 15th century and involves repairing broken pottery with a lacquer mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum. 

For me, Kintsugi is a visual representation of the jagged, crooked, painful lines of grief….broken, restored, beautiful, strong, whole again, and never forgotten.  

Sometimes we have a hard time articulating what is going on and how we are feeling. The following words of grief can help name our emotion. Once we've named them, we can start working through them and address them.