My thoughts turned to my mom as I watched the sky burn fiery red. I stood in this moment just a little longer, wanting to honor my mom and wishing she were alive to experience it with me. I remembered how someone told me the first year of grief is the hardest because it's full of firsts and lasts: the last time you did something with that person and the first time you did it without them. I think of the last Mother's Day my mom and I celebrated together and the first Mother's Day I will experience without her. The first grocery store run for one instead of for two. The first rain and the first beautiful sunset.
—Emotional Landscapes: An Exploration of Grief by Emily Bei Cheng for the Bike Packing Journal, Number 11
Holly Margl is the award-winning author of Witnessing Grief; Inviting Trauma and Loss to Our Coaching Conversations, An Enneagram Perspective, coach, coach mentor, and trainer specializing in grief, trauma, and the Enneagram.
