Donna Ashworth

You know, even if you cannot enjoy the life that you're in right now because you're worrying, who is going to die?

We're all going to die.

What if this happens?

What if that happens?

And when someone does go, that then sends you into a tailspin of

And then there's the grief for the world and the sadness of it.

And so if you are oversensitive, if you have thin skin, it's hard to live that way.

Everyone's grief becomes your grief.

So I have always found it really helpful to write about that.

And it was joyful for me that people wanted to hear it.

And I could write more and then we could talk about it and we could be open and say, every single person on this planet will grieve, bar none.

And yet we talk about it the least.

We don't do that it takes a village to grieve a lost one.

But why not?

You know, it's so damaging to be isolated in grief and dangerous.

And to bring it out into the community and have it open and not feel like you're bringing everyone down or it's contagious is such a wonderful, wonderful thing.

And we're getting there.

The conversations are lightening.

I think we're not taught how to talk about grief.

We're not taught how to grieve.