3. Let's Talk About: Loss (any type)

Naming my grief: Anticipatory Grief

Naming my core emotion: Anger

I didn’t know grief could begin long before death.

But when my mother was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer over seven years ago, something inside me began to fracture. It wasn’t the sharp, immediate grief that comes after loss - it was a slow burn. The aching one that crept in quietly, like trying to boil water on low heat. I was already grieving the mother I knew, the grandmother my son would never grow up with, the potential years together that illness would soon silence.

This kind of grief has a name, anticipatory grief.

It’s the mourning that starts before goodbye, the sadness and the anxiety of watching someone you love disappear and breakdown in slow motion. Every medical appointment, every late-night worry, every moment just being in her presence was another layer of loss. I wasn’t just…

You talk (or type), We listen (or read).

By naming our losses, by giving them voice (or words) and space (or time), we start the process of validating our own experiences and contributing to a broader societal shift.

Through this community group, we will collectively help you start your healing journey, which is often the most challenging of steps, by naming-it; so that it can be acknowledged and validated.