Grief Magic: Rituals, Stories & Gentle Conversations about Loss
#246 Why Don't I Feel Better Yet? Answering Your Most Googled Grief Questions
I've been listening to a podcast called Recoverable, and I love how they find the most Googled questions on a topic and just answer them. It felt like such a generous, democratic way of making something, and a lovely way to normalise the questions we're often too embarrassed to ask out loud. So I decided to try it here too. I looked up the questions people are most often googling about grief and sat with five of them: why don't I feel better even years later, is it normal to laugh or feel relief while grieving, why can't I cry even though I'm devastated, how do you grieve someone you had a complicated relationship with, and why does grief come back out of nowhere. Obviously I don't have tidy answers to any of them, but I wanted to explore them with you, because if millions of people are searching for them, none of us are as alone in this as it feels. I also share a bit about Soft Mondays starting back up in September, our gentle weekly space to begin the week with a card, a candle, and something that feels good, done quietly in good company. https://griefmagic.com/club/ If you have a question of your own, I'd love to hear it. You can send me a 90 second voice note over on Speakpipe, linked below: https://www.speakpipe.com/yarrowm Love, Yarrow
