The Grieving Decade
A community for twenty-somethings figuring out life in the face of loss.
Who are we?
The grieving decade is a community of storytellers and healers exploring what it means to grieve in your twenties. Twenty-somethings are bombarded with messaging that we lack the life perspective and knowledge necessary to understand our experiences. We are consistently pressured to believe that these years are the best of our adult life. If your twenties involved planning a funeral instead of a party, leaving a relationship instead of planning a wedding, or adopting a pet instead of welcoming a child - or doing many of these things all at once - you belong here. There is no one path toward healing. I hope that sharing our stories will inspire others to sit with, or even share, their own and empower readers to embark on the life that is yours, even it is not what you were told or expected it to be.
What I believe to be true about grief
What I believe to be true about grief
Grief is the most human emotion we have.
Grief is sacred and beatific. It is no one thing, but many things.
Moments of grief are laced with joy, and moments of joy are laced with grief.
Systems of oppression discourage grief communities, fostering isolation instead of connection.
Grief is a part of all people’s experience of being. It is not reserved only for the aged and dying.