Blog – personal stories, insights & support on grief & loss

A sudden death shakes more than your heart, it shakes your nervous system. How to recognize trauma and what actually helps right now.

As a widow or widower, you’re not just grieving your spouse. You’re fighting every day to make life feel livable again. What actually helps with that loneliness.

After a loss, your circle of friends often changes too. Some drift away, some stay, and some suddenly become closer than ever. Why this happens and what helps.

After an abortion, relief, certainty, and grief can sit side by side. Why all of these feelings are allowed, and how to find space for them without judgment.

"I should be feeling something, but there's nothing there." Emotional numbness after a death can be a normal protective response, and part of grief rather than its absence.

Racing heart, headaches, brain fog: grief is a whole-body experience. Which physical and mental reactions are normal, why they happen, and how to care for yourself.

Rituals, a shared meal, tears and laughter: what a grief retreat is, who it can help, and what a day with twelve grieving people in Austria looked like.