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Brace Yourself: Anticipatory Grief ๐Ÿ–ค

When grief begins before the loss and how you can navigate it

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Nov 19, 2025
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I sat by the window back in 2013 and cried quietly the entire two and a half hours of the train ride home. It was my last visit with my grandmother. She had fallen sick shortly after her favorite holiday (Christmas) and although she was recovering, something in my spirit told me I would not see her alive again. A little over a month later, she passed. Wโ€ฆ

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