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It sounds creepy, but Swedish Death Cleaning is a home organizing trend that might actually have some staying power. (It’s already a common practice in Sweden.) This method of decluttering keeps one simple concept in mind: Your stuff is going to become someone else’s problem after you die. If you’ve ever had to go through…
As a follower of my content, you’ve probably realized I have a close relationship with grief, loss, resilience, and death. So, it’s no surprise that I’ve started studying to become a death doula. The title sounds new age-y and, hey, I am kind of new age-y, but I’m also very practical and I know exactly…
Dear Janet, To say I was blindsided the day you died last year would be an understatement, and fittingly would be exactly how you died. (Somehow the impact it had on me was more important than the one that took you out? This is what grief does to us.) It was first thing in the…
“Anxiety” wasn’t a buzzword when I was growing up the way it is today. Maybe we just didn’t have a word for what was going on or maybe it wasn’t as common of an affliction. Everything’s so much faster-paced now and there’s so much instant gratification that it’s possible anxiety just wasn’t as wide-reaching back…
