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🎆 New Year’s Eve for the Grieving Heart: A Gentle Approach to Transition
As the clock ticks toward midnight and the world prepares to celebrate, those who are grieving may feel out of step with the noise. While...
Geri Watson
6 hours ago2 min read


🌙 The Courage to Close the Year: Reflections on Grief and Growth
As December winds down and the calendar prepares to turn, we find ourselves at a threshold—a quiet space between what has been and what...
Geri Watson
2 days ago2 min read


🕯️ The Light We Carry: Honoring Loved Ones Through Ritual
Grief doesn’t ask for permission. It arrives unannounced, reshaping our days, our memories, our sense of time. And yet, within its quiet...
Geri Watson
5 days ago2 min read


🎄 Christmas Day: A Season of Memory, A Legacy of Love
For many, Christmas is a time of joy—twinkling lights, laughter around the table, and the comfort of tradition. But for those carrying...
Geri Watson
Dec 22, 20252 min read


🌌 The Longest Night: Grief and the Winter Solstice
On December 21st, the earth tilts into its deepest shadow. The Winter Solstice marks the longest night of the year—a turning point where...
Geri Watson
Dec 19, 20252 min read


The Anniversary of the loss of Hunter: The Day my World Stopped Turning.
One year ago today, Hunter died. There’s no gentle way to say it; no way to soften the truth that someone I loved deeply is no longer here. The anniversary of loss is a strange kind of milestone. It doesn’t celebrate. It doesn’t mark progress in the usual sense. It simply arrives, heavy with memory, full of everything that’s been felt, missed, mourned, and carried. This day holds everything: the shock of goodbye, the ache of absence, the warmth of remembrance, and the quiet r
Geri Watson
Dec 18, 20252 min read


🕊️ The Anniversary of Loss: A Day That Holds Everything
Our one-year anniversary without Hunter will be on the 18th. There are days that live in our bones. The anniversary of losing someone we...
Geri Watson
Dec 15, 20252 min read


🎄 Grief and the Holidays: Making Space for What Hurts and What Heals
The holidays are often painted in glitter and joy—twinkling lights, festive gatherings, and the promise of togetherness. But for those...
Geri Watson
Dec 12, 20252 min read


🍂 Grief Is Seasonal Too: How Nature Mirrors Our Mourning
Grief doesn’t follow a straight line. It ebbs and flows, curls inward, bursts outward, and sometimes disappears into quiet stillness....
Geri Watson
Dec 8, 20252 min read


💌 Legacy Is the Language of Love
When someone we love dies, the world doesn’t stop—but something inside us does. We search for ways to hold on, to remember, to speak...
Geri Watson
Dec 5, 20252 min read


🌾 Grief in the Quiet Places
Grief doesn’t always arrive with tears or ceremony. Sometimes, it slips into the quiet places—between breaths, beneath routines, inside...
Geri Watson
Dec 4, 20252 min read


📚 Books That Hold Us When We Break
There are moments when grief cracks us open—when the world feels too loud, too fast, too indifferent to our sorrow. In those moments, we...
Geri Watson
Dec 3, 20252 min read


🌠 The Courage to Remember
In a world that often urges us to “move on,” remembering can feel like resistance. It takes courage to revisit the past, to speak the...
Geri Watson
Dec 2, 20252 min read


🕊️ Grief Is Not a Problem to Solve
In a world that prizes productivity, efficiency, and resolution, grief can feel like a failure. It lingers. It interrupts. It resists...
Geri Watson
Dec 1, 20252 min read


❄️ December Writing Prompts for Grief and Reflection
December carries a quiet weight. Beneath the twinkling lights and festive music, there’s often a hush—a space where memory lingers, where...
Geri Watson
Nov 30, 20252 min read


🕊️ Writing as Witness: Capturing the Final Days with Compassion
A gentle guide to documenting end-of-life moments through journaling and storytelling There are moments in life that feel too sacred to...
Geri Watson
Nov 28, 20252 min read


🌫️ Writing Through the Fog: Navigating Grief During the Holidays
The holidays arrive with glittering lights, festive music, and the pressure to be joyful. But for those grieving, this season can feel...
Geri Watson
Nov 24, 20252 min read


🦃 Legacy Letters: A Thanksgiving Ritual of Remembrance
As the scent of cinnamon and roasted turkey fills our homes and families gather around tables adorned with gratitude, Thanksgiving offers...
Geri Watson
Nov 21, 20252 min read


🗺️ Memory Mapping: Turning Everyday Objects into Legacy Stories
We all have them—objects tucked into drawers, perched on shelves, or hidden in boxes beneath the bed. A faded recipe card. A chipped...
Geri Watson
Nov 17, 20252 min read


🌙 Writing Prompts for the Days You Miss Them Most
A gentle guide for anniversaries, birthdays, and quiet moments of longing Grief has its own calendar. It doesn’t always follow the...
Geri Watson
Nov 14, 20252 min read
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