How to Perfect Your Grief Story
Because it’s going to come up sooner or later.
Last week on Coming Back, I spoke to Christina Lerchen about her grief story — the loss of her best friend to terminal breast cancer and the loss of her daughter at twenty weeks. Her friend’s diagnosis and her daughter’s death were literally back-to-back and and she’s learned how to come back from what she refers to as the “tornado” that was her life.
In our conversation, we talked about how important it is to share our stories of loss with others. Not only does storytelling relieve us of the burden of carrying our pain alone, but it helps us grow more comfortable talking about our pain in public.
In sharing our pain stories with others, we do the small, meaningful, everyday work of breaking down taboos surrounding grief, and through our vulnerability, we remind others of our humanness.
Simply put, there is value for you and BEYOND YOU in sharing your story of pain, loss, or heartache. It’s a big reason of why I put my story out there for everyone to see.
So how do we go about sharing our grief stories with others? What do we say? How do we say it? Who do we say it to?
