What do you do with grief?
What do you do with grief?
Pour it out
Let it is spill over
Run here and there
Let it touch every area of your life
Let yourself grieve the things that
were
or
are
or
could have been
or
will be
Don’t cut yourself off
Give yourself space to feel it
Really feel it
Pour out
In moans
Or tears
Or shaking
Or howls
Feel the release
The draining
The relief of the pressure
Then
In the quietness
The stillness that follows
Turn the eyes of your heart
Outward
Upward
Close your eyes
And hear the stillness
As it makes its way into your very soul
“Be still
And know”
You breathe in
Yah
You breathe out
Weh
Wor
Ship
Won
Der
Still
Ness
Yah
Weh
Shalom
About the author
I'm Morgan Motsinger. I hold a BS in Psychology with a minor in Neuroscience from Portland State University, and I host P.S. We Expire, a podcast about grief, death, and what it takes to live well anyway. I also spent fourteen years caring for my daughter Anni, who died in 2022 (MPSIIIa). I write about grief from both sides of that — what the research says, and what it's actually like inside. Nothing here is medical advice, and I'm not a clinician. It's the explanation I wish someone had handed me.