15/10/2026
💔 UNDERSTANDING GRIEF… UNTIL YOU’RE THE ONE LIVING IT.
For years, through the multitude of readings I’ve done, I’ve sat with people who were grieving.
I’ve witnessed their tears, felt their pain, connected with their loved ones in Spirit, and held space for the heartbreak that comes with losing someone you love.
As The Spiritual Aunty, I’ve shared tools, wisdom, guidance and words of comfort to help others navigate their grief.
I understood grief… or at least, I understood it from the outside looking in.
But now, with the passing of my Dad, I’m experiencing it from an entirely different place.
There is a difference between understanding grief and having to live it.
No reading, no amount of spiritual knowledge, no healing modality and no words of wisdom can fully prepare you for the reality of losing someone who has been part of your world your entire life.
You can know all the tools.
You can understand the stages of grief.
You can believe in the continuation of the soul and know that love never dies.
And still, your heart can break into a million pieces.
I’m learning that grief doesn’t always look like tears.
Sometimes it looks like silence.
Sometimes it’s anger, exhaustion, irritation, laughter, or wanting everyone to leave you alone.
Sometimes you’re okay one minute, and the next, something so small brings you to your knees.
And sometimes, you simply don’t have the energy to be the person everyone knows you to be.
Right now, I’m having to practise everything I’ve encouraged others to do.
To give myself permission to feel.
To sit with the discomfort.
To honour my own needs.
To stop trying to make sense of everything and simply allow myself to be.
Perhaps this is another part of my own journey of learning, not because I needed to lose my Dad to understand grief, but because living through this experience is teaching me things that no amount of knowledge ever could.
So, if you’re grieving, please remember you don’t have to navigate it perfectly.
You don’t have to be strong every day.
You don’t have to turn your pain into a lesson or find the meaning in it straight away.
Sometimes, you just need to get through today.
One breath 💜
One moment 💜
One memory at a time 💜
I’m learning to give myself the same aroha, patience and compassion that I have spent years giving to others.
Dad 🕊️
Your daughter is learning to navigate a world without you physically in it, while carrying your love with her always.