Common experiences within grief

• Card 1

  Experiences many grieving people recognise

  • Anniversary reactions — feeling low, on edge or unsettled around dates connected to the loss, sometimes before you consciously realise why
  • Grief triggers — a smell, song, place or phrase that brings grief rushing back, seemingly out of nowhere
  • Anger — at the person who died or left, at circumstances, at other people, or at yourself
  • Guilt — about things said or unsaid, done or undone, or simply about still being here
  • Numbness — feeling strangely little, or disconnected from the loss, especially early on or during traumatic grief

• Card 2

  All of these are ordinary parts of grief, even the ones that feel uncomfortable or “wrong” to admit. Grief can hold contradictions — love and relief, sorrow and anger, missing someone and needing distance from them, all at once.

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