When did grief become something to fix?

When did grief become something to fix? 🕊️

In our modern world, we've increasingly medicalized death and the grieving process—treating loss as a problem to solve rather than a profound human experience to move through.

Grief isn't a disorder. It's not something that follows a neat timeline or checklist of stages. It's messy, non-linear, and deeply personal.

Yet we often feel pressure to "get over it," to return to productivity, to medicate our pain away rather than sit with it. We've moved death out of our homes and into hospitals, creating distance from one of life's most universal experiences.

Here's what we want you to know:

• Your grief doesn't have an expiration date

• Feeling your loss deeply doesn't mean something is wrong with you

• There's no "right way" to grieve

• Sadness, anger, relief, numbness—all of it is valid

While professional support can be invaluable when grief feels overwhelming, the experience itself isn't something to pathologize. Sometimes the 2 healing thing we can do is create space for our grief, acknowledge it, and allow ourselves to be changed by it.

If you're navigating loss and need support in honoring your unique grieving process, I am here. Not to fix you, but to walk alongside you.

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