Grief
Mo Shafieeha and
Grief
Mo Shafieeha and
Grief, when it comes is nothing like we expect it to be. Joan Didion


Any form of abandonment in the name of privacy is a weak manifestation of human bond.
Our culture knows how to do CPR, but it is lost on how to mend a broken heart.
Grief should not be suppressed.
Grief-as-a-service?
We don’t know how to ask nor accept help.
Fear of being a burden is a silent killer.
Looking after those we love is an honor.
She was imprisoned by two words: what if. What if I’d known she was dying? What if I’d known I was about to lose her? But what-ifs don’t empower us. They deplete us.
I told Sofia, “Today you can say, ‘If I knew then what I know now, I would have done things differently.’ And that’s the end of the guilt. Because you owe it to your mom to turn that
... See moreParents often say, “I’d die for my child.” I heard a few of the parents in the grief group express the wish to trade places with their deceased children—to die so their children could live. After the war, I felt the same way. I would have gladly died to bring my parents and grandparents back.
But now I know that instead of dying for my dead, I can
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