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August 2026


The Ordinary Miracles of Healing: Small Signs You're Healing After Grief
If you're grieving the loss of someone you love, you may wonder whether healing is ever really happening. The signs you are healing after grief are rarely dramatic. Most people expect healing to arrive all at once—that one day they'll wake up and suddenly feel better. But healing doesn't usually work that way. We often think healing will arrive with a grand announcement. That one day we'll wake up and suddenly feel better. That grief will somehow disappear and we'll know we'v

Pat Elsberry
Aug 252 min read


Trusting Life After Loss
One of the hidden challenges of grief is learning to trust life again after loss. Loss has a way of changing us. It teaches us that life can change in an instant. That the people we love can be here one moment and gone the next. That nothing is guaranteed. After experiencing a significant loss, many of us begin to live more cautiously. We hesitate to make plans. We guard our hearts. We become reluctant to dream too far into the future. Not because we don't want joy. But becau

Pat Elsberry
Aug 182 min read


The Legacy Love Leaves Behind
One of the greatest gifts our loved ones leave behind is their legacy. Not the kind measured by accomplishments, titles, or possessions. But the kind measured by love. Long after someone is gone, their influence remains. It lives in the lessons they taught us. The values they instilled in us. The traditions they created. The kindness they showed. The ways they loved and cared for others. We often think of legacy as something large and extraordinary. Yet many of the most meani

Pat Elsberry
Aug 112 min read
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