Introducing Good Grief

Grief comes in many forms: job loss, sickness, divorce, death. 100% of us will be impacted by any or all of the above. Yet, I bet you don’t think much about grief, but you should.

In the weeks and months (and now years) that followed, I have spent countless hours buried in the bureaucracy of loss. The sheer volume of tasks is relentless and expensive, and the worst part was that so much of the pain and chaos felt avoidable with just a bit more planning. Grief will always be present with a loss of that magnitude, but being buried in paperwork and not having the time or space to process the loss was unnecessary.

My situation is not unique — in countless interviews with others who have suffered losses of all kinds, I have seen a trend. As a society, we are primarily unequipped to talk about grief and are therefore not ready when it inevitably comes.

We all deserve the space to grieve without being buried by process.

I intend to normalize talking about grief to be better prepared and have a more robust network of resources available when the inevitable happens. Together, we can get good at grief.

That’s why I’m launching Good Grief — a developing network of resources to guide people through all kinds of loss events. We’re here to help proactively prepare ourselves for the inevitable, enable tough conversations, and offer step-by-step guidance and resources necessary when a grief event occurs.

We can get good at grief.