Grief Archives - Belle Brita https://bellebrita.com/category/beliefs/faith/grief/ A Christian Feminist Lifestyle Blog Sun, 13 Jul 2025 22:07:02 +0000 en hourly 1 70618101 I Will Never Have the Best Year of My Life http://bellebrita.com/2025/07/death-birth-sorrow-joy/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=death-birth-sorrow-joy Sun, 13 Jul 2025 22:07:02 +0000 http://bellebrita.com/?p=8019 When I graduated high school, my friend Matt was the valedictorian. In his class address, he said that our four years together were good, but they weren’t the best years of our life. The best years were yet to come. It was a good speech. At the time, I didn’t have much to compare it... [Read More]

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]]> 8019 Learning How to Live with Grief http://bellebrita.com/2020/02/living-with-grief/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=living-with-grief Tue, 18 Feb 2020 11:00:56 +0000 http://bellebrita.com/?p=7450 Welcome to the twelfth day of the 2020 Love Blog Challenge! Today’s prompt is Challenges. Check out the announcement post for all the prompts and rules this month. You can still join the link-up for yesterday’s topic, Respect.  Grief is a learning process. It’s been 4 1/2 years since my mom died. I still think about... [Read More]

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]]> 7450 Grief is Weird: I Still Mourn People I Barely Knew http://bellebrita.com/2019/02/grieving-acquaintances/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=grieving-acquaintances Fri, 22 Feb 2019 10:51:26 +0000 http://bellebrita.com/?p=6799 Welcome to the fifteenth day of the 2019 Love Blog Challenge! Today’s prompt is Heartache. Check out the announcement post for all the prompts and rules this month. You can still join the link-up for yesterday’s topic, Strength.  Last week, for the first time in four years of hosting the Love Blog Challenge, I didn’t have a blog... [Read More]

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]]> 6799 How to Help a Grieving Friend http://bellebrita.com/2018/02/help-grieving-friend-advice/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=help-grieving-friend-advice Fri, 16 Feb 2018 18:17:07 +0000 http://bellebrita.com/?p=5856 Welcome to the twelfth day of the 2018 Love Blog Challenge! Today’s prompt is Challenges. Check out the announcement post for all the prompts and rules this month. You can still join the link-up for yesterday’s topic, Tradition.  It’s been 2 1/2 years since my mother died. I’m still grieving, and I don’t think I’ll ever stop. Time... [Read More]

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]]> 5856 Muddling Through Without My Mom http://bellebrita.com/2017/07/muddling-through-without-my-mom/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=muddling-through-without-my-mom http://bellebrita.com/2017/07/muddling-through-without-my-mom/#comments Wed, 19 Jul 2017 10:00:51 +0000 http://bellebrita.com/?p=5397 Thursday of last week marked two years since my mother died. Two years without my mom. It just doesn’t seem real. Part of me is still in denial, two years after my mother’s death. How could someone so vibrant and loving and precious not be alive? Coming to terms with grief isn’t about “moving on.”... [Read More]

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]]> http://bellebrita.com/2017/07/muddling-through-without-my-mom/feed/ 10 5397 Please Don’t Compare Your Grief to My Own http://bellebrita.com/2017/02/my-grief-journey-not-yours/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=my-grief-journey-not-yours http://bellebrita.com/2017/02/my-grief-journey-not-yours/#comments Tue, 07 Feb 2017 11:00:23 +0000 http://bellebrita.com/?p=4801 Welcome to the fifth day of #LoveBlog! Today’s prompt is Loss. Check out the announcement post for all the prompts and rules this month. It’s not too late to link up for yesterday’s prompt, The 5 Love Languages. My mom’s death is the worst event of my entire life. My grief is more painful and... [Read More]

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