I have been neglecting pretty much all of my social media as of late. Work has kept me more busy than I would like. I've been wanting to get back to the rest of my work, the processes that I have been in and making progr...
","url":"https://whengriefwaves.com/blog/f/in-the-spaces","title":"In The Spaces","date_modified":"2026-03-19T00:00:00Z"},{"id":"time-is-relative","html_content":"The more I process, and watch others around me process, talk to people who have been through the same, it all comes down to the same thing... time. Time is required to not feel the loss so acutely. Time is what makes thi...
","url":"https://whengriefwaves.com/blog/f/time-is-relative","title":"Time Is Relative","date_modified":"2026-03-18T23:00:00Z"},{"id":"distraction-helps-kinda","html_content":"My everyday life has been a bit hectic lately, and I can't really say that's a bad thing. I'm one of those people that will have a weekend with no plans and by Friday night, I've got at least two things scheduled. I am s...
","url":"https://whengriefwaves.com/blog/f/distraction-helps-kinda","title":"Distraction Helps... Kinda","date_modified":"2026-03-18T22:00:00Z"},{"id":"romanticized","html_content":"I absolutely adore my Dad. I pretty much think he is the best man that I've ever known, that he is wise and taught me a whole ton of things about living a good life, that he has an unbelievable amount of patience, and th...
","url":"https://whengriefwaves.com/blog/f/romanticized","title":"Romanticized","date_modified":"2026-03-18T21:00:00Z"},{"id":"plants-as-a-tool","html_content":"Serendipity, coincidence, the stars aligning, who knows, but this post earlier today from Crow's Daughter comes at a very relevant time in my life. Lately I've been talking to a friend of mine about plants and herbs and ...
","url":"https://whengriefwaves.com/blog/f/plants-as-a-tool","title":"Plants As A Tool","date_modified":"2026-03-18T20:00:00Z"},{"id":"up-and-down","html_content":"Grief is not this linear process, where once you go through the stages (ha, see here), you are suddenly free and clear of feeling the negatives. It does come in waves. Mostly I've been in a high, personally and professio...
","url":"https://whengriefwaves.com/blog/f/up-and-down","title":"Up and Down","date_modified":"2026-03-18T19:00:00Z"},{"id":"new-things-are-weird","html_content":"In this new reality, I have recently received an offer for a new job. Nothing I was explicitly looking for, but it will be good for me and mine.
","url":"https://whengriefwaves.com/blog/f/new-things-are-weird","title":"New Things Are Weird","date_modified":"2026-03-18T06:00:00Z"},{"id":"falling-off","html_content":"In 2006, the family went on a cruise to Mexico. There were a few stops along the way, and one of the things my Dad and I did together was parasailing and then we rented a jet ski after and rode out. My Dad was driving an...
","url":"https://whengriefwaves.com/blog/f/falling-off","title":"Falling Off","date_modified":"2026-03-18T05:00:00Z"},{"id":"grief-is-natural-in-a-group","html_content":"Upworthy recently put this story up about grief in the animal kingdom. As I read through it, I kept coming back to how there were groups of animals mourning. It was not just one individual mourning for another and then m...
","url":"https://whengriefwaves.com/blog/f/grief-is-natural-in-a-group","title":"Grief is Natural... In a Group","date_modified":"2026-03-18T04:00:00Z"},{"id":"the-little-things","html_content":"My Dad liked accessories. Cufflinks, rings, watches, tie clips, etc. One of the things that happened when he died was that I was the one that took off his last remaining piece of jewelry. The rest had been removed over t...
","url":"https://whengriefwaves.com/blog/f/the-little-things","title":"The Little Things","date_modified":"2026-03-18T03:00:00Z"},{"id":"the-wisdom-of-elders","html_content":"I delved a little bit into triggers, but there's one thing that I've been actively avoiding, and that is the memorial DVD of my Dad. It's not even the pictures so much as the music, because it reminds me so intensely of ...
","url":"https://whengriefwaves.com/blog/f/the-wisdom-of-elders","title":"The Wisdom of Elders","date_modified":"2026-03-18T02:00:00Z"},{"id":"please-talk-about-him","html_content":"There's this weird phenomena that keeps happening in my world and that is... People don't like to talk about my Dad with me. Or, when I bring up an anecdote about him, they get this sad look on their face.
","url":"https://whengriefwaves.com/blog/f/please-talk-about-him","title":"Please Talk About Him","date_modified":"2026-03-18T01:00:00Z"},{"id":"triggers","html_content":"I am ill-prepared for the things that will set me off mentally to thinking about my Dad no longer being with us. Initially I thought that the ring of his that I now wear would be a trigger, but it's become something that...
","url":"https://whengriefwaves.com/blog/f/triggers","title":"Triggers","date_modified":"2026-03-18T00:00:00Z"},{"id":"expected-but-never-desired","html_content":"Truth be told, I am fortunate that I had nearly 41 years with my Dad in my life. I absolutely recognize that I am one of the lucky ones, that my Dad was there nearly every day for the first 17 years, and was only a phone...
","url":"https://whengriefwaves.com/blog/f/expected-but-never-desired","title":"Expected But Never Desired","date_modified":"2026-03-17T23:00:00Z"},{"id":"the-five-stages","html_content":"Yup, here we go. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’s often cited 'five stages of grief' are as such: \n- Denial & Isolation\n - Anger\n - Bargaining\n - Depression\n - Acceptance\n\nThese various stages were first posited by her in the boo...
","url":"https://whengriefwaves.com/blog/f/the-five-stages","title":"The Five Stages","date_modified":"2026-03-17T22:00:00Z"},{"id":"and-were-supposed-to-act-like-nothing-happened","html_content":"When my Dad passed away, I took one week off of work.
","url":"https://whengriefwaves.com/blog/f/and-were-supposed-to-act-like-nothing-happened","title":"And We're Supposed To Act Like Nothing Happened","date_modified":"2026-03-17T21:00:00Z"},{"id":"the-waves","html_content":"I came up with the title of this blog based on a post I had seen be an Internet stranger, someone that was addressing grief. Basically they talked about how at first, the waves of grief are overwhelming, like 100 foot wa...
","url":"https://whengriefwaves.com/blog/f/the-waves","title":"The Waves","date_modified":"2026-03-17T20:00:00Z"},{"id":"the-end-as-beginning","html_content":"Grief.
","url":"https://whengriefwaves.com/blog/f/the-end-as-beginning","title":"The End As Beginning","date_modified":"2026-03-17T19:00:00Z"}]}