The Grief Literacy Project
The Work Has Grown
Over the years I saw that grief isn't only a private wound. Our whole culture doesn't know how to hold it. We're grief illiterate.
"Every one of us will love. Every one of us will experience loss. Almost none of us were taught about what comes next."
- Hello! I'm Therese Marchitelli
We teach people how to read, how to invest, how to raise children, how to retire. We teach almost nothing about grief — what it does to the brain, to judgment, to identity. Then loss arrives, and we expect the grieving to know their way. We expect the people around them to know what to say.
Most don't. That isn't a personal failure. It's a cultural one.
Grief encompasses more than the death of a loved one. It also comes with, a divorce, a layoff, a move, the dog who's no longer at the door, a diagnosis. It comes to work. It sits in meetings. It's the hidden grief we all hold.
I'm Therese Marchitelli. My husband David died in 1995. I've practiced Tibetan Buddhist meditation for more than fifty years, trained as a NeuroGrief & Loss Coach, and wrote the Nautilus Award winning book, What NOT To Do When Your Husband Dies. The Grief Literacy Project is where all of it comes together — for the people grieving, and for the families, friends, and workplaces around them.
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Each week I write about what grief actually does to us and what the people around us can do better.
