I had already survived, and even thrived, after the loss of my mom when I was fifteen years old, and my father’s death just eleven months later. In 2005, my beautiful son Jack Austin died. ![]() The tear-soaked paper only reminded me how fragile my world had become. Writing had always been my go-to for personal growth and clarity but at this point in my life, filling pages with words did nothing for me. I had spent months trying to express the grief and pain that was tearing my heart apart. We've already done one for Children's Grief Awareness Day and for Valentine's Day.The Six-Word Memoir process came into my life at the perfect time. ![]() Stay tuned in the future on the blog and social media, because we will continue doing six-word story challenges. Or both! There are no rules here (well, except that whole six-word rule). Just so you know, none of the stories shared in the comments of past WYG six-word posts were moved to the new site, so feel free to share a story there that you have already shared with us. We hope you'll consider sharing your own six-word grief story. We hope you'll like them and share them, if you feel inclined. Though our early site testers faced some technological glitches, we were still left speechless by the powerful six-words stories that rolled in. Today, whether you're hearing about it for the first time or if you knew about it already, we invite you to head on over to Grief In Six Words. While you're there, we hope you'll read the stories that got the site going. After all, we are griefy-mental health gals, not web developers, so we needed all the help we could get! We encouraged our grief-friends to go take the site for a test-drive with some six-word challenges, to help us get it running smoothly. Now, if you follow us on social media (which you should, just sayin'), you may be a little confused because we have been talking about Grief In Six Words on Facebook and Instagram for a while now. That brings us to today: The official ribbon cutting for So we did the only logical thing there was to do: We started a new website! Obviously. which we were again sad would be lost in the comments of our blog and Facebook. When we shared that post, people responded with hundreds more incredible six-word grief stories. It seemed a tragedy that they would be lost in the history of our Facebook comments, so we wrote another post sharing some of the submissions. This sparked a movement of people inspired to write their own six-word stories, six-word memoirs, etc.Ī while back, Eleanor wrote a post with a six-word grief journaling exercise and, when we shared it on Facebook, we were overwhelmed by the hundreds of responses that rolled in over the course of just a couple days. "For sale, baby shoes, never worn." Ernest Hemingway ![]() He took them up on it and wrote the following story: Now, in case you have never heard of a six-word story, here is the deal: A ( contested) rumor has it that way back when, Ernest Hemingway was out with some friends who challenged him to write a short story in just six words. But when all you have to do is muster six words, it can feel a little more manageable. We also know from many years of working with grievers and hanging out here with all of you that not everyone fancies him/herself a writer and that writing can feel really daunting in grief. Writing, of course, is one of those creative tools. Why? Well, because we love creative expression as a tool for coping with grief. If you're a long-time WYG grief-friend, you know that Eleanor and I looooove six-word stories. Grief in Six Words, Writing, Creative Outlets
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