HeyJaredChelsea Pegues
Finally calling myself a writer after too many years spent not chasing my dreams. Griever, mother, wife and friend...highly sensitive, deeply sarcastic, and endlessly curious about the human experience. Lover of dogs, em dashes and exclamation points!
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The Grief Tree: Kelly Cervantes (opens the original)
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“Asteroids are not fairly rationed.” This is what advocate, author, and speaker Kelly Cervantes tells me as I sit with her to discuss the latest chapter in her life. And if ever there were a perfect slogan for griefy merch, she’s got the market cornered with that line.Today, my friend greets me with her trademark smile (one that could melt a glacier) looking effortlessly polished and ready. I remain in awe of how bright-eyed Kelly always seems. As if it’s impossible to dim her light, even though
The Grief Tree: Lisa Keefauver (opens the original)
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I often look at pictures of myself from decades past, and I’m baffled. WHY was I so hard on this girl? She was never skinny enough, never pretty enough, smart but wasting potential, why did she dress that way….etcetera, etcetera. Now, when I see myself at 10, 16, 20…I’m blown away. She is SO beautiful, just out there trying her best. I was 14 when I first experienced sexual violence. 19 when an acquaintance abducted and terrorized me for hours. And for so long, I was so mean to myself. I thought
The Grief Tree: Keti Shea (opens the original)
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When I was younger, my mother used to tell people that I was “Such a good little girl, until she became a teenager. And then…” She would trail off, giving me a side-eye she tried to pass off as being in jest. “I don’t know what happened to my sweet little girl.” Light laughter would follow, and whoever she was talking to would probably join in, thinking it was just a little mother-daughter tension, a normal way for a parent to express frustration with the rapid-fire changes of adolescence. The t
The Grief Tree: Erika Mahoney (opens the original)
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Before I officially “met” Erika Mahoney online, she was already woven into the fabric of my life…I just didn’t know it yet. It turns out, we share quite a few friends in common in the grief space. She happened to DM me with a question about a magazine I write for, and we got to chatting. She has a podcast, Senseless, she told me. Ever the girl’s girl, and eager to support, I told her I’m almost never without a pod or audiobook in my ears, so of course I would jump on it.I did not read the synops
The Grief Tree: Casey Mulligan Walsh (opens the original)
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In August 2020, I was 35. I worked a fast-paced, high-stress corporate job and had a dad I adored—except for the fact that I hated who he became when he drank (with increasing frequency). I loved to write but assumed the time to make it my career was long gone. I thought I would be a helpless daughter and neurotic, depressed administrator living for the weekends the rest of my life. Four short months later, my dad died suddenly and nothing would ever be the same. The past six years have been the
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