When Things Changed: A car accident and nonfinite loss
Jessica Porte Jessica Porte

When Things Changed: A car accident and nonfinite loss

A story of grieving of how life changed and what life was supposed to look like through the eyes of a five-year-old after a car accident.

Trigger Warning: Story contains details of car accidents and light details of injuries.

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Grief is a piano you can’t play
Jessica Porte Jessica Porte

Grief is a piano you can’t play

Sometimes we look for ways to increase our Continuing Bonds (the desire or need to increase our connection to our person that died). Sometimes we don’t know the power some items hold until they are gone, and the grief wave crashes again.

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Dear Kian,
Jessica Porte Jessica Porte

Dear Kian,

I wrote this in 2021. In honor of National Grief Awareness Day I’m posting. Miscarriage, stillbirth and pregnancy loss is a disenfranchised grief experience. Speaking up about who we grieve matters, even if others never met them.

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Living Life with Death Lessons
Jessica Porte Jessica Porte

Living Life with Death Lessons

There are some lessons only grief can teach us. Then there are those we can implement now to live more empathetically. Here is a little about what death teaches us from a Life Coach.

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