Strength in Solidarity: Navigating Grief Together

By Rae Karim

Grief is an experience everyone will have at one point or another in life. There is no way around it, under it, or over it. It is happening. It has happened. It will happen.

Grief is a natural response to loss or change. While most people equate loss only with physical loss by way of death, I am convinced that worldwide events like COVID have brought awareness to the fact that the losses we grieve are not only associated with death. During those times, we experienced the loss of distance, loss of time, loss of finances, loss of joy—the list goes on.

So, how do we navigate such spaces, regardless of the reason for our grief? That’s a million-dollar question, and I have a few answers that might win us a couple hundred thousand.

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