Loss is universal. Talking about it should be, too.

Talking about the timeline and the journey should be normalized as well.

Sitting with the pain of loss is terribly difficult. Also immensely valuable.

And silliness and laughter is not to be underestimated for it's healing power. It is a very good medicine for the crooked journey of everyone's reality.

Notice.
Name.
Choose.

Lead yourself well.

The grief journey is NOT life as usual. Everything has changed, except the expectation to 'continuing life as usual'.

Wisdom in grief and mourning usually comes slowly.

Choose to allow patience and learning to integrate in it's own way and it's own time.

The voices along this grief journey may yell out distractions, bottling up thoughts, facade behaviours and cultural misconceptions.

Notice.
Name.
Choose patience and the wisdom that will surface along this pathway.

You have my best.

Mr. Rogers is right - anything that's human is mentionable. And what's more human than the grief that follows loss?

Grief and mourning are human. Make space to bear witness to it, without hurry and without judgement - for yourself. For others.

Respectful leadership must allow space for that which is human. It's necessary.

Lead yourself well.

Be there.
Full present to the other.
Without judgement or pretense.
Without fault-finding or fixing.
Listening deeply.
Listening to what is said and what is unsaid.
Listening to the visible and the invisible.

Creating respectful space for next steps to surface, be processed in unhurried time and access wisdom for a unique journey and situation.
True listening is a gift we can offer one another.

Notice.
Name.
Choose.

Lead yourself well.