Naming the Complicated Feelings

Grief can lie quiet for a long stretch and then surface without warning — triggered by a season changing, a stranger's laugh, a smell in a grocery store aisle, an anniversary you didn't consciously remember but your body did. This isn't a sign that you haven't healed.

If there are feelings tangled into your grief that feel hard to admit — relief, anger, guilt, confusion — name one of them here, gently and without judgment.

In the journal this prompt has 10 lines. Here, take as many as you need.