May 11 (edited) • COMPASS METHOD
I’ll go first
I’ll go first.
I survived cancer, and then learned that surviving comes with its own kind of grief nobody warns you about. The “you should be grateful” grief. The “shouldn’t you be over this by now” grief. The body that doesn’t feel like yours anymore.
I’m losing my father slowly, right now, while writing this. And I’m losing him with a backdrop of family who has spent my whole life trying to make sure he believed lies about me before he died. That’s a layered, complicated, ugly grief most people don’t have words for.
And under all of it, I’m grieving versions of myself that didn’t survive what I survived. The girl I was before. The trust I had before. The family I thought I had.
If you’ve ever been told your grief “doesn’t count” — yours counts. All of it counts.
If you’re grieving someone who hasn’t died yet, that’s real grief, and it’s allowed.
If you’re grieving a version of yourself, a relationship, a future, a parent who’s still alive but never showed up, you belong here.
I’m not “healed.” I’m not on the other side. I’m still in it. I built this community FROM inside it, not from a safe distance after.
That’s why I get it. And that’s why this space exists.
Your turn, only if you want to:
What kind of loss are you carrying? One word, one name, one sentence — whatever feels true.
You’re not alone here. 💛
— Megan
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