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We Don’t Just Miss People

Go Where the Breath Flows

Let Some Things Wait

The Longer You Ignore Your Needs

It Helps to Know Someone Cares

Love, Beauty, and Meaning

People Who Will Love You

If You Apologize All the Time

Bracing for Something Bad to Happen

We Could Avoid a Lot of Conflict By…

Every Season You Kept Growing

How People Can Change Our Lives

When You’ve Been Through a Lifetime of Trauma

A Calmer Life

No Matter How Busy You Are

What We Need

When It Feels Like You’re Doing It All Wrong

The World Needs More of You

Beautiful Things

The Small, Unexpected Ways Grief Stays with Us

“The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not ‘get over’ the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it.” ~Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

My friend Diana’s WhatsApp profile picture is of herself hugging her dog, Zibby.

Every time her name comes up on my phone, there they are. The two of them in a tiny square. I’ve seen that photo so many times I stopped really looking at it.

Until recently.

Zibby wasn’t just a dog. She was part of the whole rhythm of their life, the mornings and the evenings and all the …