What We Have Learned

What We Have Learned

Taking, Holding, Giving, and Creating Space

How mindfulness and space help process grief with others.

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Heidi J Kellam
Sep 09, 2025
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A Heavy Saturday

In the morning, I hear my phone ding while I'm taking a shower.

Two days prior, in a tearful phone conversation, I offered to give space to my beloved as he handles the grief he and his family are experiencing. They are navigating the dissolution of a marriage and, by proxy, a family as they have known it up until now.

Not expecting to hea…

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