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When the World Changes, but Your Mind Doesn’t: Why Grief Isn’t Erased by Milestones
Grief doesn’t always shift when the world does. Here’s why milestones may not bring relief—and how ritual can meet you in the in-between.

Melissa Blum
26 minutes ago2 min read
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When Grief and Motherhood Collide
Parenting through grief is heavy. This tender reflection reminds you—you’re not failing. You’re human. You’re still showing up.

Melissa Blum
7 days ago2 min read
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Not Broken. Cracked Open. But Growing
Cracked open doesn’t mean broken. A raw reflection on grief, healing, and giving ourselves grace when the journey feels too hard.

Melissa Blum
Jun 272 min read
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Where the Ink Settles: A Reflection on Trauma and Grief
Trauma doesn’t vanish — it bleeds. Softening, but spreading. This is a reflection on how it shapes us, long after the moment.

Melissa Blum
Jun 212 min read
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The Grief That Has No Name
Grief isn’t always loud. Sometimes it’s quiet, unnamed, and layered. This is a reflection on the many shapes it can take.

Melissa Blum
Jun 52 min read
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Children, Death, and the Stories We Tell
Children grieve too. They need truth, tenderness, and ritual—not silence. We don’t have to hide our grief from them.

Melissa Blum
May 252 min read
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The Invisible Cracks
After grief, you walk with invisible cracks—some days gold, some days sticky tape. Both are sacred. Both are still holding.

Melissa Blum
May 182 min read
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Bittersweet Baby
No one warned me how bittersweet the last baby would be. The joy. The finality. The aching knowledge that every first is also a last....

Melissa Blum
May 42 min read
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Learning to Grieve: How the Small Losses Prepare Us for the Big Ones
What if the small losses were grief too? Meet Tenderings—soft, subtle moments that teach us how to hold what life asks us to let go.

Melissa Blum
Apr 282 min read
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Between the First Breath and Final Goodbye
There are two thresholds we rarely walk with ease: The one that marks life’s beginning, and the one that marks its end. Motherhood and...

Melissa Blum
Apr 222 min read
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The Seasons We Don’t Speak Of - A Grief Reflection
We talk of weddings and babies, but not of death and endings. A call to honour the silent seasons we all eventually face.

Melissa Blum
Apr 161 min read
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