HeyJaredLife and Death
Death education and life inspiration from a death doula, grief educator, trauma survivor, and joy seeker.
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Why the Deaths of Celebrity Artists are So Hard (opens the original)
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This has been a hard week for losing artists. Though Dolly Parton, Tim Curry, and Yayoi Kusama were not the only ones who died, these three coincidentally shared a similar message: Go against the grain and your work will be a lighthouse for others.<img alt="" class
Grief 101: The goal is integration, not recovery (opens the original)
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In this series of lessons, we’re looking at what grief is and isn’t and how we can move forward. (Here’s the first one in case you missed it.) Today, we’re reframing grief and learning what it will take to integrate grief with the rest of our lives.Society tells us grief is something we experience after a death (rarely after any other loss) that should be wrapped up in a timely fashion. They think it has a well-defined beginning and ending. We’re told anything outside of those boundaries is path
Grief 101: Compound Grief & Secondary Losses (opens the original)
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Grief is a lot more complicated than most of us were taught. We thought it was an emotion like any other and we all know sadness, happiness, and fear come and go. Rarely does a single emotion alter the course of our lives (unless we have some serious anger issues…). I hope that in reading these lessons, you’re starting to learn more about what grief is and isn’t. Today, we’re going to talk about what happens when losses rain down upon us and start to accumulate. This is called compound grief.In
I always think of my mom on my birthday (opens the original)
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Every year on my birthday, I think about my mom. If I live to be 70, I will have lived the same number of years without her as with her. 🤯 Watch the video to hear my unscripted, deep, birthday thoughts. 😄 What do you think about on your birthday?Thanks for reading (and watching)! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.<input c
Grief 101: When we feel it & what can heal it (opens the original)
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I want address the word “heal” in the title before I say anything else. Healing our grief looks like learning to integrate it with the rest of our lives, not to eliminate it from our lives completely. That’s not possible, but we’ll talk about integration in a future post. For now, just know “healing” in grief doesn’t look the way we expect it to.Someone once told me one of the biggest takeaways they had gotten from my work was understanding that grief isn’t just something we feel after a person
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