Just because I went back to work didn’t mean I was healed — and that’s true for many others. We all heal differently.

Grief doesn’t shrink. Life grows around it.

There is no judgment in that space. People come in varying degrees of brokenness and healing — and that’s what makes it beautiful.

Everything you’re feeling is an okay feeling. To feel and to have emotions is a part of the human experience.

So yeah, my biggest surprise was how ill-equipped a lot of people are — how ill-equipped we are, culturally and socially, to talk about death and grief. And to be okay with that — to be okay with not being okay.