prolonged grief
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Seven Months After my Father’s Death, the Pain Grows Deeper Everyday
It has been nearly seven months since I watched my father pass away. And at the six-month mark, half an orbit around the sun, I suddenly felt something I think all people in deep grief fear: I felt for the first time that I was becoming used to my father’s absence. A month and a Continue reading
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Waiting for Death to Come: my experience with anticipatory grief
In October, 2019, my father was diagnosed with a very rare and terribly aggressive brain tumor which would come to claim his life three years and a month later. At the time of the diagnosis, I was 19 years old. After receiving a first batch of treatments in 2019 and the beginning of 2020, my… Continue reading
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Every Day I Wake Up and You’re Still Gone: on the ugly side of grief
Yesterday morning as I opened my eyes I immediately felt the horrendous weight of grief, death, and loss. This weight pulled me down and erased my desire to face the reality of a world without my father. I knew it would be a terrible day… 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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