HeyJaredThe Grief Table - Jamie Herzog
A grief-literate newsletter by a bereaved mom and grief educator - weekly reflections and practical tools to help you carry love, loss, and life forward in community.
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Grief in the Quiet of September (opens the original)
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This Month, Grief Feels Like…This month, grief feels like standing on a porch with the door half open. Part of me is still in the long, strange summer that came before. Another part can feel the air changing and is not sure it is ready to step into what is next.September is especially tender for me because my son’s birthday comes at the end of the month. Birthdays can hold so much at once: love, longing, memory, celebration, and the ache of all that looks different now.This year, dear friends an
Support Is Not a Hierarchy (opens the original)
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When someone is grieving, we often hear the same advice: get support.It is well meant. But when your life has been turned upside down, that can feel like a vague instruction.What kind of support? From whom? What if talking makes everything feel sharper right now? What if you need help but do not have the energy to find it, explain your story, or sit with someone new and say the hardest thing that has ever happened to you out loud?A recent study on bereavement support made room for something I th
GRIEF TOOLBOX (opens the original)
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Some days, grief is loud.Not always in a way anyone else can hear. Sometimes it is a racing mind. A tension headache. A body that is restless. A wave of sadness in the car. A night when sleep just will not come easy. A kind of numbness that makes even choosing a song feel like too much work.This week’s tool is a simple one: use sound as support.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UNHx!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsu
Grief Is Tiring in Ways I Never Knew (opens the original)
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September Grief Prompts (opens the original)
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September - Four Deep Questions for Your Grief Journal<img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="795" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uaNv!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.ama
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