How Can We Make Room For Grief This Holiday Season?
I will never forget the last Christmas I spent with my mother because I hated it. A few weeks before the holiday, we decided she would no longer undergo treatment […] The post How Can We Make Room For Grief This Holiday Season? appeared first on Essence.
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Getting your Trinity Audio player ready… I will never forget the last Christmas I spent with my mother because I hated it. A few weeks before the holiday, we decided she would no longer undergo treatment for her breast cancer or multiple sclerosis. We knew the end was near, but had no idea when it would arrive. We were told six months to a year, which I now know means, “Your person could die any day now.” I knew it would probably be our last Christmas together, and the pressure to try and create a perfect holiday for a dying woman, plus the stress of her end-of-life care, my work, our collective worry about what would happen when mom actually died, plus the searing
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