Grief ages with us (+ journal prompts)

Dear Friends, In the aftermath of of last Mother’s Day weekend, fifteen years since my son Riley died, I’m thinking about how as we move forward in grief, our feelings and reactions to triggers, like Mother’s Day, may change. We might even grieve the raw power of our early grief and how it kept our loved one close to us at first. I still remember the fresh pain of my first Mother’s Day two months after he died, how vivid and accessible all my memories of him still were, like afterimages of a...