Welcome back to Designed for Healing: Evolving Environments with Cynthia Young and Sherry Trentini
Grief doesn’t follow a formula. It moves the way we do, shifting with our histories, our bodies, our relationships, and the parts of us that learned early on how to survive. Some days we let go because holding on feels too heavy. Other days we hold tight because something in that connection still matters, especially when our children are part of the story.
One thing I come back to again and again in my own healing is that there isn’t a “right” pace. There’s no five-step progression that makes the ache neat or predictable. There is only the ongoing invitation to stay close to ourselves, to honor what feels true in the moment, and to meet the hard places with as much gentleness as we can manage.
If you’re somewhere in the middle right now, moving between anger and softness, distance and longing, please know that nothing about your process is wrong. You are responding to something that mattered, and your feelings deserve room to breathe. This is not a test to pass. It’s a human experience that asks for compassion long before it asks for clarity.
