I have been navigating feelings of grieving relationships lost, and I wanted to share my thoughts with you on the topic. Often when we think about grief, we think about losing a person to death. That grief "makes sense" because the person is no longer her with us in the living. Grieving someone that is still here is a different type of grief because...well because they are still here.

We can grieve what we've lost that is no longer for us. And that doesn't make what we had any less special. It doesn't have to negate the good that was once there. When we give ourselves grace, we allow ourselves the space for the necessary healing that allows us to have the good memories along side the ones that shape our grief.