Welcome

I’m really glad you’re here.

Starting this blog feels a bit like leaving the light on in a quiet room. Not demanding attention, just offering a place to pause, reflect, and maybe feel a little less alone.

This space will hold reflections on grief, loss, caregiving, illness, and the ways life changes us over time. Some posts may be practical, some more reflective. Some may offer language for experiences that are hard to name. Others may simply sit alongside what you’re already carrying.

I work with grief in its many forms. Not just after death, but in the slow losses, the anticipatory grief, the changes that arrive without clear endings. I’m interested in what happens in the body, in the nervous system, and in relationship when something meaningful is lost or altered. I’m also interested in what helps us stay connected to ourselves and to one another while we move through it.

You won’t find quick fixes here. You won’t find instructions for “moving on.” What you will find, I hope, is permission to go at your own pace, to be honest about what’s hard, and to trust that healing doesn’t have to be loud or dramatic to be real.

Sometimes grief brings tears. Sometimes it brings numbness. Sometimes it brings unexpected laughter or a deep belly sigh. All of that belongs. I believe humor can exist alongside grief, and that being human in the midst of loss is not something to be corrected.

If you’re reading this as someone who is grieving, caring for someone you love, or feeling changed by life in ways you didn’t ask for, you’re welcome here. You don’t need the right words. You don’t need to know what comes next.

This blog is an offering, a quiet place to land, reflect, and maybe recognize a piece of yourself in what’s shared.

Thank you for being here.

Holding space,

Jacquie