People don't like to talk about death. I realized that pretty quickly after losing my dad in February 2020. The pandemic made it a lot harder to heal, but 2 years later and I finally feel that I've started to process this loss in my life.
I swear I've looked at every resource to exist on the internet to figure out how to deal with the pain I have felt, but found many had a similar fatal flaw - they saw grief as a journey that may be similar to others. But your grief is your own and it is unique. It may be pessimistic to say that no one else understands, but they can't. However, a lot of therapy and multiple grief journals later, I have started to make progress in my coping. The pain hasn't subsided, but I can carry it better.
In 2021, I attended my first support group. It was on zoom of course, but I thought it was time to give it a try. I attended to process my own grief, but ended up leaving feeling that I had made a difference in someone else's grief journey. Between my nursing school education and personal experience, I was able to help someone else cope.
So, I decided to make a toolkit. Even if only 1 person reads it, if they feel a little less alone, then it was worth it.
Take care of yourselves,
Raquel
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