Allowing Yourself to Grieve is Not Wallowing

Mia Hayes
5 min readJan 25, 2022

There’s no shame in being a complete mess

Be strong. Don’t make others uncomfortable. It’s time to move on. Or maybe like Princess Elsa in Frozen, you’re urged to “Conceal, don’t feel.”

Whatever sentiment is given, they all mean the same: limit your grief.

I was nineteen when my grandfather died unexpectedly. As a child, I had lived…

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Mia Hayes

40-something trying to live several lifetimes at once. Stay-at-home author, mom, and wife.