#grief

The Flowery Man

Living with a Visionary: A beautifully illustrated animation about the devastating and occasionally beautiful circumstances around a long marriage, decline, hallucinations, and Covid. Hard and lovely and sad. Single-link NYT gift article.

Metafilter · EN

Are You Making This Common Mistake With Grief?

In recent years, the language of therapy has moved beyond the clinic and into everyday conversation, giving us new ways to name our inner lives and, at times, new ways to misread them. Nowhere is this more evident than in how we respond to grief. In grief, we learn quickly which words help and which ones wound. “At least they lived a long life.” “They wouldn’t want you to be sad.” Most of us recognize these as unhelpful sentiments. Not all harmful responses to grief sound like clichés, though. Sometimes they arrive dressed in compassion, wrapped in the language of awareness. A friend might say

Greater Good · EN

Happiness Break: A Meditation to Help You Sit with Grief

This guided meditation with end-of-life doula Andrea Sexton-Dumas offers a gentle way to make space for grief by imagining sharing your heartache with a plant, releasing it into the soil, and nurturing the earth that holds it.

Greater Good · EN