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How We Navigate Grief with Blair
How We Navigate Grief is where we name what’s hard, share what helps, and move forward without erasing the past. It's like voice notes from your griefy bestie.
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How We Navigate Grief with BlairWhy Do We Mishear Song Lyrics? A Mondegreen, a Graveyard Song, and the Choice to Believe
It was very early in the morning; I was driving my new-to-me car home from the gym, testing the speakers while thinking about the hot bath I was about to take…
How We Navigate Grief with BlairThe Glitter Crash: Travel Edition (And How I’m Fighting Back for Big Feelings Friday)
You’re standing in your kitchen. The espresso machine hisses. Your kitchen. Not a Parisian café. Not a village in Tuscany where time moves differently. Your…
How We Navigate Grief with BlairWhat an Online Grief Support Group Gives You Between Grief Trips
Somebody tells you everything happens for a reason. Or your boss gives you criticism that was honestly kind of okay, and you completely melt down. Your next…
How We Navigate Grief with BlairWhen Attending Synagogue on Yom Kippur Becomes Something to Fear
I was sitting in our synagogue for Rabbi Rose’s final Kol Nidre service when I thought about my dad’s eyes snapping open. Rabbi Kliel Rose has meant everything…
How We Navigate Grief with BlairThe Smut Strut: When Pleasure Is the Medicine
I’ve spent years reading autobiographies, grief memoirs, and self-help books. Books to sharpen my mind. Books as catalysts. Books as work. This summer…
How We Navigate Grief with BlairYou Cannot Outrun a Feeling You Refuse to Name
Big Feelings Friday is here, and we are going to talk about NAMING THEM. Shout out to Sutton from the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills for this epic pop…
How We Navigate Grief with BlairWhat Dying People Taught Me About the Wellness Industry
The wellness industry does not sell health. It sells the belief that death is optional if you are disciplined enough. That is why the trends never stop coming…
How We Navigate Grief with BlairThe First Wedding Anniversary After Separation: How I Gave August 18 a New Meaning
Another Big Feelings Friday is here, and it’s a doozey for me. There is a version of this post where I tell you I forgot the date. I did not forget the date…
How We Navigate Grief with BlairLife Falling Together: Why What Feels Like Falling Apart Is Actually the Rebuild
I’m bringing back BIG FEELINGS FRIDAY, and this one has been floating around my brain for a while. If you are here because your life feels like it is coming…
How We Navigate Grief with Blair“I Have To” vs “I Get To”: The Shift That Quietly Rebuilt My Mental Health
There is a moment I come back to again and again. It is early, the house is quiet, and I catch myself sighing before the day has even started. “I have to…
How We Navigate Grief with BlairIn Bali, the Dead Still Get a Say
It was April, and we were in a market in Bali, buying vegetables for a cooking class we hadn’t especially come for. That’s how grief trips work, I’ve learned…
How We Navigate Grief with BlairHow to Feel in Control Again After Loss, Grief, or Trauma
There are moments when life grabs you by the throat, slams you against the wall, and says, “Let’s see how you handle this.” Loss. Grief. Trauma. The kind of…
How We Navigate Grief with BlairLife Week and One Million Hours of Driving
The last few weeks are a blur. The good kind. I flew from Winnipeg to Kamloops. I MCed a golf tournament with my friend Jeremy. Then I got in the car and drove…
How We Navigate Grief with BlairWhat Is Time? Does Forever Really Exist? It’s Forever Until It’s Not
TL;DR: What is time? It is the movement we measure between moments. Does forever really exist? Yes, but not the way we think. Forever is not a number on a…
How We Navigate Grief with BlairMy Dad Was Sick, Not Bad: What Addiction Taught Me About Forgiveness
In 2019, I walked onto a stage in my hometown and shared my story publicly for the very first time. My mom was there. My dad was there. My Baba Leah was there…
How We Navigate Grief with BlairComing Home to Winnipeg: Why I’m Moving Back After 19 Years in BC
Nineteen years ago, I packed up my Alero and left Winnipeg, sure that home was somewhere out west. And for eighteen years, British Columbia gave me mountains…
How We Navigate Grief with BlairGrievorcée: A New Word for Grieving Someone Who Is Still Alive
I am not a widow. My wasband is still alive yet, I feel the version of him I once loved is not. He breathes. His heart still beats. And yet I grieve him in a…
How We Navigate Grief with BlairA Year After I Opened for Sir Richard Branson, and the Resilience Lessons That Stayed
A year ago today, the mountains held me. I remember the thin, bright air of Deer Valley, Utah, and the way an unexpected invitation can rearrange a life. My…
How We Navigate Grief with BlairMAYhem: The Highest Highs, the Lowest Low, and the Mother’s Day That Ended My Marriage
Well, May. You had some high highs and very low lows. As I write this, I’m on my sister’s couch in Winnipeg, Manitoba. If I’m being honest, this is the post I…
How We Navigate Grief with BlairFifteen Years Fits in a 5x10 Storage Locker
I stood in the doorway this weekend and looked at what’s left. Boxes stacked in a concrete room the size of a parking space, behind a roll-up door with a…
How We Navigate Grief with BlairHundreds of Goodbyes: A Poem on Endings, Beginnings, and the Butterflies That Found Me
As a little girl, I turned to writing whenever I had big feelings. In my diary. For school assignments. In poetry. There was something about putting words on a…
How We Navigate Grief with BlairI Thought I Was at Peace. I Was Wrong.
For most of my life, I thought I knew what it meant to rest and feel calm. I wasn’t having panic attacks. I wasn’t falling apart in public. I was functioning…
How We Navigate Grief with BlairKintsugi Healing: How Grief, Loss, and Love Rebuild a Broken Heart
Kintsugi Healing: Learning to Feel Again After Grief Five and a half years ago, I made a quiet decision that would change everything. I was going to put my…
How We Navigate Grief with BlairConfessions of a Treasure Hunter: How Collecting Rocks, Shells, and Sticks Became My Way Through Grief
I’ve always been a treasure hunter. Not the kind with a map and an X marking the spot, but the kind who walks slowly along a shoreline, eyes scanning the…
How We Navigate Grief with BlairThe First Last Breath I Ever Witnessed: What Death Taught Me About Grief
The first last breath I ever witnessed was hers. Auntie Heather. I was 20 years old, standing in a hospital room that felt too quiet, too still, as if the…
How We Navigate Grief with BlairFrom Broken Pieces to Times Square: How a Resilience Movement Took Over NYC
On March 7th, something remarkable happened in New York City. Not just a book launch.Not just a billboard in Times Square. It was a celebration of human…
How We Navigate Grief with BlairFive Books Later: 5 Lessons in Resilience
Five books.200+ stories of resilience.Three billboards.Conversations across Ghana, Costa Rica, Mexico, Canada, the USA, Australia, Bali, the Maldives, and…
How We Navigate Grief with BlairWhat Is Aphantasia and is it fixable?
For most of my life, I thought when people said, “Close your eyes and picture a red apple,” they were being poetic. Apparently… they weren’t. Some people can…
How We Navigate Grief with BlairWhat a Cartel Flare-Up in Puerto Vallarta Taught Me About Fight or Flight
I went to Puerto Vallarta for Grief Week from February 16 to 24. This week is to honour our mom and dad and their death anniversaries. Dead Dad Day is February…
How We Navigate Grief with BlairFive Years Without My Mom: Where Does Time Go When You’re Grieving?
Does time have wings? Because how has it been five years since my mom, Sharon, suddenly died? One moment she was fine.The next, we were told she had two weeks…
How We Navigate Grief with BlairFeeling Overwhelmed? Why Being "Unreachable" is the Ultimate Self-Care
Up above the world so high, like a diamond in the sky…. or something like that. It still gets me every time I think about it. The sheer, staggering privilege…
How We Navigate Grief with BlairWhy I Take Medication for My Mental Health
Medication can make the world go round.Medication will keep me here.Medication can be the thin, unglamorous thread holding the fabric of my existence together…
How We Navigate Grief with BlairWhat Are Grief Trips and Why Do They Help You Heal?
I have always loved to travel.New people. New places. New conversations. New versions of myself. For most of my life, I thought that made me adventurous. What…
How We Navigate Grief with BlairCan children experience grief when a parent is living with addiction?
Grief does not always arrive with death. Sometimes it arrives through absence, inconsistency, or a moment that quietly marks an ending you are too young to…
How We Navigate Grief with BlairThe Day I Learned Why I Couldn’t Outwork My Grief
For most of my life, effort was my coping mechanism. If something hurt, I worked harder.If something scared me, I stayed busy.If something broke my heart, I…
How We Navigate Grief with BlairWhat Resilience Actually Looks Like After Loss (and What It’s Not)
Resilience after loss does not look like bouncing back.It does not look like “being strong.”It does not look like getting over it, moving on, or tying your…
How We Navigate Grief with BlairI Didn’t Understand My Nervous System Until It Finally Felt Safe
When I first learned what a nervous system was, I realized my nervous system was so dysregulated that I couldn’t actually comprehend what the person was…
How We Navigate Grief with BlairGrief Exposed the Myth of Capacity
For most of my career, I believed leadership meant endurance. Hold more. Carry more. Push harder. Expand capacity at all costs. Work long hours. Make more…
How We Navigate Grief with BlairWhy Grief Feels Worse When You Finally Have Space to Breathe
There is a cruel little plot twist in grief that no one prepares you for. You survive the chaos.You get through the crisis.You make it past the logistics, the…
How We Navigate Grief with BlairNo One Warns You That Grief Erases the Person You Once Were
No one really prepares you for this part of grief. People warn you about the pain, the waves of sadness, the anniversaries that knock the wind out of you, and…