Rachel was 8-years-old when she came home from church and was told her mom died in a car accident the night before. That day, her dad called her his brave little girl, and she lived up to that expectation. No one would see her cry until her dad's death. Rachel says that hearing about the passing of her mother is what made her human. It shaped her entire world view.
Rachel highly recommends the books Motherless Daughters and The Aftergrief by Hope Edelman.
Rachel's Take-Away: It's way harder to be 32-years-old without parents than it was as a child. Check on adult children. I didn't think about how hard it would be for the rest of my life. Forever is a very-long time. Adults think that grieving is step-by-step. Kids grieve differently. They may not cry. They may show it in other ways and little changes. You can learn a lot of things from kids when you pay attention to how they grieve.
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