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How We Navigate Grief with Blair
by Blair | How We Navigate Grief
How We Navigate Grief is where we name what’s hard, share what helps, and move forward without erasing the past. It's like voice notes from your griefy bestie. howwenavigategrief.substack.com
Episodes
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The Glitter Crash: Travel Edition (And How I’m Fighting Back for Big Feelings Friday)
You’re standing in your kitchen. The espresso machine hisses. Your kitchen. Not a Parisian café. Not a village in Tuscany where time moves differently. Your kitchen in actual life. That’s the glitter crash. What is a Glitter Crash, Anyway? A glitter crash is what happens when your brain suddenly...
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What an Online Grief Support Group Gives You Between Grief Trips
Somebody tells you everything happens for a reason. Or your boss gives you criticism that was honestly kind of okay, and you completely melt down. Your next therapy session isn’t until next week. The next grief trip is months away. So who do you tell? That question is why Rachel and I built an...
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When Attending Synagogue on Yom Kippur Becomes Something to Fear
I was sitting in our synagogue for Rabbi Rose’s final Kol Nidre service when I thought about my dad’s eyes snapping open. Rabbi Kliel Rose has meant everything to our family and to me, and now he’s moving to a new congregation in a different city. So I was already there holding grief. He has been…
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The Smut Strut: When Pleasure Is the Medicine
I’ve spent years reading autobiographies, grief memoirs, and self-help books. Books to sharpen my mind. Books as catalysts. Books as work. This summer, everything shifted. I was on a grief trip when one of the women mentioned the book she was reading, casually noting it was “spicy.” I’d never...
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You Cannot Outrun a Feeling You Refuse to Name
Big Feelings Friday is here, and we are going to talk about NAMING THEM. Shout out to Sutton from the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills for this epic pop culture moment - NAME ‘EM! I stopped an Instagram scroll last week, which almost never happens. The post was about Dr. James Gross, a…
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What Dying People Taught Me About the Wellness Industry
The wellness industry does not sell health. It sells the belief that death is optional if you are disciplined enough. That is why the trends never stop coming. If any of them delivered what they promised, we would have stopped buying the next one. Living well is not the same as living long, and…
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The First Wedding Anniversary After Separation: How I Gave August 18 a New Meaning
Another Big Feelings Friday is here, and it’s a doozey for me. There is a version of this post where I tell you I forgot the date. I did not forget the date. Nobody forgets the date. You can lose your keys, your job, your entire sense of who you were at 26, but the date sits in your body like a...
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Life Falling Together: Why What Feels Like Falling Apart Is Actually the Rebuild
I’m bringing back BIG FEELINGS FRIDAY, and this one has been floating around my brain for a while. If you are here because your life feels like it is coming undone, let me give you the short answer first, before the story, before the metaphors, before any of it. Sometimes the collapse is the...
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“I Have To” vs “I Get To”: The Shift That Quietly Rebuilt My Mental Health
There is a moment I come back to again and again. It is early, the house is quiet, and I catch myself sighing before the day has even started. “I have to answer these emails. I have to make breakfast. I have to go for a hike.” And then something in me pauses, because I know what it feels like to...
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In Bali, the Dead Still Get a Say
It was April, and we were in a market in Bali, buying vegetables for a cooking class we hadn’t especially come for. That’s how grief trips work, I’ve learned. You book the itinerary as a container. You put the temple and the rice terrace and the cooking class in the calendar because grief has no...
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How to Feel in Control Again After Loss, Grief, or Trauma
There are moments when life grabs you by the throat, slams you against the wall, and says, “Let’s see how you handle this.” Loss. Grief. Trauma. The kind of pain that makes time irrelevant, food tastes like cardboard, and sleep feels like a foreign language. It’s the avalanche of “too much,” and...
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Life Week and One Million Hours of Driving
The last few weeks are a blur. The good kind. I flew from Winnipeg to Kamloops. I MCed a golf tournament with my friend Jeremy. Then I got in the car and drove eighteen hours each way to Sawtooth Lodge for the Sawtooth Survival Gathering in Idaho. I went as an instructor. I stood up and spoke…
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What Is Time? Does Forever Really Exist? It’s Forever Until It’s Not
TL;DR: What is time? It is the movement we measure between moments. Does forever really exist? Yes, but not the way we think. Forever is not a number on a clock. It is the feeling that a love, a bond, or a person will always be here. That feeling is true right up until the moment it is not. In…
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My Dad Was Sick, Not Bad: What Addiction Taught Me About Forgiveness
In 2019, I walked onto a stage in my hometown and shared my story publicly for the very first time. My mom was there. My dad was there. My Baba Leah was there. I could see them in the room while I delivered my keynote, and I will carry that image with me for the rest of my life. I am so grateful...
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Coming Home to Winnipeg: Why I’m Moving Back After 19 Years in BC
Nineteen years ago, I packed up my Alero and left Winnipeg, sure that home was somewhere out west. And for eighteen years, British Columbia gave me mountains, ocean, lakes, a life I’m endlessly grateful for. But somewhere along the way I started to notice that the word “home” kept drifting east,...
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Grievorcée: A New Word for Grieving Someone Who Is Still Alive
I am not a widow. My wasband is still alive yet, I feel the version of him I once loved is not. He breathes. His heart still beats. And yet I grieve him in a similar way that I’ve grieved the dead, in the good outfit, eating shiva loaf, being still, in the dark, in the small hours when the house…
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A Year After I Opened for Sir Richard Branson, and the Resilience Lessons That Stayed
A year ago today, the mountains held me. I remember the thin, bright air of Deer Valley, Utah, and the way an unexpected invitation can rearrange a life. My travel season was winding down, or so I thought, when Shauna’s message landed in my inbox. Come to the mountains. Take the stage with Sir...
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MAYhem: The Highest Highs, the Lowest Low, and the Mother’s Day That Ended My Marriage
Well, May. You had some high highs and very low lows. As I write this, I’m on my sister’s couch in Winnipeg, Manitoba. If I’m being honest, this is the post I almost didn’t write. It’s easier to show you the highlight reel. The stages, the microphones, the new friends, the good hair days. It’s...
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Fifteen Years Fits in a 5x10 Storage Locker
I stood in the doorway this weekend and looked at what’s left. Boxes stacked in a concrete room the size of a parking space, behind a roll-up door with a padlock I bought from the storage facility office. Fifteen years of a life together. And I’m not even done. Two more loads at least before I...
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Hundreds of Goodbyes: A Poem on Endings, Beginnings, and the Butterflies That Found Me
As a little girl, I turned to writing whenever I had big feelings. In my diary. For school assignments. In poetry. There was something about putting words on a page that made the inside of me feel less crowded. Writing helped me understand myself, and it gave my deepest thoughts a place to go,...
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I Thought I Was at Peace. I Was Wrong.
For most of my life, I thought I knew what it meant to rest and feel calm. I wasn’t having panic attacks. I wasn’t falling apart in public. I was functioning. I was showing up. I was getting things done. And in the absence of visible crisis, I told myself that meant I was okay. I was not okay. I...
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Kintsugi Healing: How Grief, Loss, and Love Rebuild a Broken Heart
Kintsugi Healing: Learning to Feel Again After Grief Five and a half years ago, I made a quiet decision that would change everything. I was going to put my heart back together. Not to return to who I was, but to become someone who could feel again. To crack it open and let love back in. I…
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Confessions of a Treasure Hunter: How Collecting Rocks, Shells, and Sticks Became My Way Through Grief
I’ve always been a treasure hunter. Not the kind with a map and an X marking the spot, but the kind who walks slowly along a shoreline, eyes scanning the ground like something sacred might be waiting to be found. Because it is. Give me a beach, any beach. Ocean, river, lake. Give me a forest…
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The First Last Breath I Ever Witnessed: What Death Taught Me About Grief
The first last breath I ever witnessed was hers. Auntie Heather. I was 20 years old, standing in a hospital room that felt too quiet, too still, as if the world had paused without asking permission. No one prepares you for that moment. No one sits you down and says, this is what it looks like…
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From Broken Pieces to Times Square: How a Resilience Movement Took Over NYC
On March 7th, something remarkable happened in New York City. Not just a book launch.Not just a billboard in Times Square. It was a celebration of human resilience. At 31 minutes past the hour, every hour for 24 hours, the cover of RESILIENT A.F. Stories of Resilience Volume 3 appeared on a Times...
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Five Books Later: 5 Lessons in Resilience
Five books.200+ stories of resilience.Three billboards.Conversations across Ghana, Costa Rica, Mexico, Canada, the USA, Australia, Bali, the Maldives, and online rooms filled with humans who simply wanted to feel less alone. A clothing line.Podcasts.Strategic partnerships.Live events.Creative...
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What Is Aphantasia and is it fixable?
For most of my life, I thought when people said, “Close your eyes and picture a red apple,” they were being poetic. Apparently… they weren’t. Some people can literally see images in their mind like a movie screen. They can rotate objects, picture faces, and imagine landscapes. I see nothing. Just...
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What a Cartel Flare-Up in Puerto Vallarta Taught Me About Fight or Flight
I went to Puerto Vallarta for Grief Week from February 16 to 24. This week is to honour our mom and dad and their death anniversaries. Dead Dad Day is February 18th, and Dead Mom Day is February 23rd. It was intentional. Sacred. A container for reflection. The kind of trip where you think, This…
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Five Years Without My Mom: Where Does Time Go When You’re Grieving?
Does time have wings? Because how has it been five years since my mom, Sharon, suddenly died? One moment she was fine.The next, we were told she had two weeks left to live.Three days later, she was gone. Make it make sense. How does a life end that quickly and yet grief stretch on forever?How can...
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Feeling Overwhelmed? Why Being "Unreachable" is the Ultimate Self-Care
Up above the world so high, like a diamond in the sky…. or something like that. It still gets me every time I think about it. The sheer, staggering privilege of it. I walk onto a metal tube. I sit. I wait. And then… I’m elsewhere. Another continent unfolds beneath the wing. The science of it is a...
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Why I Take Medication for My Mental Health
Medication can make the world go round.Medication will keep me here.Medication can be the thin, unglamorous thread holding the fabric of my existence together. I’m not being poetic for effect. I’m being literal. There are pills in my life that help my brain fire properly, my hormones stay…
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What Are Grief Trips and Why Do They Help You Heal?
I have always loved to travel.New people. New places. New conversations. New versions of myself. For most of my life, I thought that made me adventurous. What I did not realize until much later was that I was also very good at not being home. Home was where the hard stuff lived. Abandonment.…
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Can children experience grief when a parent is living with addiction?
Grief does not always arrive with death. Sometimes it arrives through absence, inconsistency, or a moment that quietly marks an ending you are too young to name. I was seven years old when my parents divorced. At that age, you do not understand adult decisions, addiction, or emotional distance.…
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The Day I Learned Why I Couldn’t Outwork My Grief
For most of my life, effort was my coping mechanism. If something hurt, I worked harder.If something scared me, I stayed busy.If something broke my heart, I built something beautiful on top of it and called that healing. And for a long time, that strategy worked. Or at least, it worked well…
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What Resilience Actually Looks Like After Loss (and What It’s Not)
Resilience after loss does not look like bouncing back.It does not look like “being strong.”It does not look like getting over it, moving on, or tying your pain up in a pretty bow so other people feel more comfortable around you. And if one more person tells you how “well you’re handling it,” you...
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I Didn’t Understand My Nervous System Until It Finally Felt Safe
When I first learned what a nervous system was, I realized my nervous system was so dysregulated that I couldn’t actually comprehend what the person was explaining. It sounded like gibberish. But I did know that I was not in a good place with my mental health, and something needed to change....
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Grief Exposed the Myth of Capacity
For most of my career, I believed leadership meant endurance. Hold more. Carry more. Push harder. Expand capacity at all costs. Work long hours. Make more money. Then grief showed up and took that belief out back for a very humbling conversation. Grief did not arrive quietly. It arrived as loss...
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Why Grief Feels Worse When You Finally Have Space to Breathe
There is a cruel little plot twist in grief that no one prepares you for. You survive the chaos.You get through the crisis.You make it past the logistics, the adrenaline, the survival mode. And then, finally, you have space to breathe. And that is when a new type of grief kicks the door down....
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No One Warns You That Grief Erases the Person You Once Were
No one really prepares you for this part of grief. People warn you about the pain, the waves of sadness, the anniversaries that knock the wind out of you, and the silence that follows a loss. They talk about the heartbreak of missing someone. What they do not warn you about is the quieter grief...
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