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Learning to Sit with the Pain of Death
Some days, when I wake up, I don’t have the energy to move beyond the weight of my father’s death – and after nearly 9 months after his death, I have learned that the best way to handle such days is to let myself accept and sit with every inch of the pain. Continue reading
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Notes on the Inescapable and Irremediable Solitude of Grief (and learning to cherish it)
When my father died, so did a part of myself. Continue reading
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Grieving my Past Life
Realizing that grief goes far beyond death in life is a difficult realizaton to have. What is tricky about grief when you lose someone you love is that you cannot confront the object of your grief directly, as they are gone. Your world becomes full of the person’s absence, but the very phrase hints to… Continue reading
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An Introduction to my Grief
3.5 months; 109 days; 2616 hours. These are measures of the amount of time which has gone by since I saw my father take his last, slow and quiet breath. Although I had three years to prepare myself for the possibility of his premature death in my life, nothing could prepare me for the experience… Continue reading
About Me
My name is Soline and I am a French-American 23-year-old Philosophy student based in Montreal, QC. This is a personal blog dedicated to grief, grieving, and the ways I learn to live with what at times is unbearable.
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