Abuse Power Quietly

Accumulate Guilt

Ache At Night

Ache In The Rain

Age Like Wine

Almost Remember

Answer With Their Absence

Are A Complete Mess

Arrive Before Their Explanation

Arrive Before They Are Understood

Arrive Before You're Ready

Become Lighter Over Time

Become More Real When Named

Become Real Only When Shared

Become Someone’s Job

Boil Over

Break In Customer Service

Brighten When Ignored

Burn Going Down

Burn Like Summer

Burn Like Vinegar

Cannot Be Borrowed

Care For The Self

Catch In Your Throat

Change Temperature When Entered

Clog

Close A Door

Come Back In Spring

Come Back Wrong

Come Up In Therapy

Compress You

Corner You Politely

Cost More Than Planned

Create Distance

Cry Without Warning

Demand Attention Eventually

Dim When Noticed

Divide The Room

Don't Age Well

Don’t Like Being Rushed

Echo An Empty Room

Echo In An Empty House

Echo Long After

Euphemize

Exist To Be Carried

Fade

Feel Delayed

Feel Distant Too Soon

Feel Dull

Feel Heavier Than They Look

Feel Inevitable

Feel Like A Record Scratch

Feel Like A Teenager Again

Feel Like Bad Decisions

Feel Like Déjà Vu

Feel Like Regression

Feel Like The Weekend

Feel Misplaced

Feel Out Of Body

Feel Raw

Feel Secondhand

Feel Thick

Feel Too Personal To Explain

Feel Too Quiet

Feel Too Real

Feel Understood Too Late

Feel Underwhelming

Feel Unfinished

Feel Unspoken

Fill A Room

Flag Red

Float Like An Iceberg

Flush Hot

Fold Back On Themselves

Follow An Ambulance

Forget Their Own Name

Freeze You Quiet

Gender You

Get Buried

Get Forgotten

Get Lost

Get Louder When Ignored

Glitter Without Warming

Go Cold

Go Out Too Late

Hang Heavy

Hang Heavy In The Room

Hang In The Air

Heal Crooked

Hit Close To Home

Hit Different

Hit Different At Night

Hold The Shape Of The Last Person

Hum With Almost-Memory

Keep Piling Up

Keep Talking After The Point

Keep You Awake

Leave A Scar

Leave Before The Name

Leave The Ground

grief

Cockney Rhyming Slang

emotional baggage

anguish

pain

dealing

is a place none of us can imagine. We might expect that we will be prostrate, inconsolable, crazy with loss. We do not expect to be literally crazy, cool customers who believe their husband is about to return and need his shoes.

Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it. We anticipate (we know) that someone close to us could die, but we do not look beyond the few days or weeks that immediately follow such an imagined death. We misconstrue the nature of even those few days or weeks. We might expect if the death is sudden to feel shock. We do not expect this shock to be obliterative, dislocating to both body and mind. We might expect that we will be prostrate, inconsolable, crazy with loss. We do not expect to be literally crazy, cool customers who believe their husband is about to return and need his shoes. Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking

Grief is a process, not a state. Anne Grant

is a roller coaster it's up, it's down, the emotions sometimes take over.

The thing about grief is that it's a roller coaster it's up, it's down. The emotions sometimes take over. Brent Sexton

Grief is a room without doors but somehow, with its tinsel and cliches, Christmas finds a way in. Simon Van Body

is about learning to weave a parachute out of everything broken.

I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.

is an emotion that feels quite similar to fear.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

is an emotion that's almost unplayable because in grief, one is in a separate emotional state... it's an inconsolable emotion.

Grief is an emotion that's almost unplayable because you're in a separate emotional state... it's an inconsolable emotion. Nicolas Roeg

is being unmoored, having no anchor and no home in the world.

One word I had throughout the first year and a half of my mother's death was 'unmoored.' I felt that I had no anchor, that I had no home in the world. Meghan O'Rourke

grief, n.Definitions

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