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By Sherrie Ann Cassel https://centering.org/grief-digest-articles/rebirthing-relationships-by-sherrie-ann-cassel/ As published in GRIEF DIGEST, Fall, 2019

By Sherrie Ann Casse Strange days, indeed. From the inhumanity of political systems to the deaths and injuries of countless many individuals due to gun violence – and the infinitely many social issues we can choose to support or protest – grief runs through them all. Sometimes we lose, and sometimes we lose big. SocialContinue reading “Sticks and Stones”

By Sherrie Ann Cassel This time last year, Ben and I were frantically packing in a maelstrom of chaos; I wasn’t sure I’d make it. Living in a place for a long time, one can collect tons of unnecessary things – TONS. I’m a bibliophile and my library that has traveled and expanded with meContinue reading “Downsizing”

By Sherrie Ann Cassel For me, I scream the loudest in my silent moments. For example, I just spent the weekend in Mexico with my younger brother. I had a lot of down time while there. Other than a neighborhood of barking dogs, including my nephew, there were no distractions. I had the opportunity toContinue reading ““I’ve got a feeling somebody’s watching me””

By Sherrie Ann Cassel I have some of my son’s clothing. Many of his shirts still smell like he did, Axe body wash, Tide, and wine scented cigars. Those scents are conscious and deliberate, unlike when he smelled like Johnson’s baby lotion, Apple juice and pureed carrots. That comparison stings. I don’t want to makeContinue reading “Legitimate Grief”

Today my son would have been 36.

Yucca Valley sunset, July 30, 2019, Sherrie Ann Cassel

Click on link above. I have always been the kind of person who strove to be positive; sometimes I even make myself sick. We are socialized to be the kind of people who have survived our personality construction, e.g. a mom with an unfulfilled dream to have been a cheerleader producing a daughter with anContinue reading “This is brilliant and compassionate writing”

By Sherrie Ann Cassel When someone disappoints us, it can hurt. If someone continually disappoints us, the pain can become a deep wound that festers for the rest of our days — if intervention is not sought. I was speaking with a member of my family this morning, and in less than one paragraph, IContinue reading “Make a wish”

By Sherrie Cassel Navigating the grief process takes work. There will be revolving cycles in the grief process, and grievers will have an initial time of visceral pain — and it’s hell while you’re in it. The first year is for nursing your broken heart and fumbling through, what was for me, the first stageContinue reading “Grit”