Your Grief Isn’t Above My Grief

All people’s trauma is of equal significance.

Image credit: Canva

As I help others along their grieving journeys and move through the process myself, I have learned something very surprising: that when someone dies, some people make it into a competition of pain. A deep desire within us arises to try to show the depth of our love by minimizing others’ trauma in favor of showing that ours is more…