I used to believe Grief had to be BIG, reserved for death and maybe heartbreak. Grief was a place I didn’t want to go, didn’t believe I could come back from. Now grief is a daily practice. Grief is the emotional experience of acknowledging loss or change, of any size. It is not the same as sadness or depression. Some things that I regularly grieve (in no particular order): My pre-kid life Previous versions of my body Fantasies I've had about other people or myself that did