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Published: February 18, 2020

Learning How to Live with Grief

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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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Published: February 22, 2019

Grief is Weird: I Still Mourn People I Barely Knew

Have you ever found yourself crying at the death of a long-lost friend or a former colleague? Grief can be weird and surprising. You expect to mourn the passing of your close friends and family, but there are times when grief catches you unexpectedly. I've been thinking about this a lot lately, after attending the memorial service for a sorority sister I hadn't seen in a decade. We lost touch years ago, and yet I'm still so shocked and saddened by her death. I've shared these thoughts, along with my perspective from my own mother's death, in a blog post. I hope they help you process your own feelings. | Belle Brita #grief #mourning

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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Published: February 16, 2018

How to Help a Grieving Friend

Has your friend recently lost a loved one? Grief is an incredibly challenging time in someone's life. When my mother died, I felt like my entire world ended. Learn how to help a grieving friend. | Belle Brita #grief

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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Published: July 19, 2017

Muddling Through Without My Mom

Two years after my mom died, I'm still in denial. How can she be gone? | Belle Brita

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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Updated: June 5, 2017    

Please Don’t Compare Your Grief to My Own

I was only 28 when my mother died. She was only 60. Unless you also lost a parent at a young age, you do NOT know how I feel. | Belle Brita

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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Published: December 13, 2016

Life Lessons from a Celebration of Life (Guest Post by Libbi)

After my mother's memorial service, my best friend collected her thoughts on life and death. | Belle Brita

Today should be my mother’s 62nd birthday and my parent’s 32nd wedding anniversary. Instead, it’s just another painful reminder that my mother died more than a year ago. I spent most of last December in a deep state of depression. I’ve never used the words “depression” or “depressed” very lightly. I try to take mental… [Read More]

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