Healing isn’t something that happens to you in a single moment.
It’s a relationship you build with your body, your emotions, and your nervous system over time.
Nothing is broken. Nothing needs fixing.
Your body has been communicating all along healing begins when you feel safe enough to listen.

Content Warning: This article discusses pregnancy loss and infertility.

If you are a Gen X woman caring for aging parents while simultaneously navigating perimenopause, managing your own health, and trying to maintain some semblance of yourself, I want you to know: I see you. This is one of the hardest seasons of life, and the struggle is real.

Letting go is one of the hardest things we face as humans. Whether it’s releasing old stories, relationships, expectations, or the weight of past experiences, it can feel uncomfortable—sometimes even impossible. And yet, letting go is often the very thing that opens the door to peace, clarity, and transformation.

We've all heard about the "stages of grief" denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance. They're taught in schools, referenced in movies, and quoted by well-meaning friends who want to help us make sense of our pain.

But here's what I've learned through my own grief journey and through walking alongside hundreds of grieving clients: grief doesn't follow a neat, linear path. And when yours doesn't, it doesn't mean you're doing it wrong.