When we lose our person, we're grieving so much more than the life we shared.
We're grieving the trips we won't take.
The milestones they won't be here for.
The ordinary Tuesdays we thought we'd have for decades.
The conversations we haven't had yet.
The person they were still becoming.
We're grieving a future we could picture so clearly, even though we hadn't lived a single moment of it yet, and there's a deep ache that comes alongside missing things that never got the chance to happen.
Those dreams were real to us. That future mattered. We had already made room for them in the life we imagined.
And then, suddenly, we're left trying to make sense of a life that looks nothing like the one we thought we'd be living.
Who am I now?
What does my future look like?
How do I begin imagining a life that was never in the plans?
These are some of the questions that can emerge as we learn to live with loss.
And we deserve space to explore what that means.
If you're looking for a soft place to land, where you can have these conversations with women who understand this experience firsthand, I'd love to tell you about Re-Imagine.
It's my upcoming group experience for widows, running through the fall and winter months - a season when the future we imagined and the life we're living now can feel especially far apart.
Comment RE-IMAGINE and I'll send you the details.
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Lauren
(Fellow widow & certified grief coach)
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