This evolving series, Unspoken, is based on Branden Collinsworth’s powerful passage about grief. Below are a few of his thoughts about grief that resonate with me.

“Grief is also sacred. It’s the fire that strips away everything false, leaving you raw, leaving you real. It doesn’t just break you - it remakes you, a little more honest, a little more whole. Grief is not your enemy; it’s your passage. Through it, you find your way back to yourself, to the truth that nothing is ever truly lost.

Grief will change you. It will ask you to sit in the dark, to wrestle with your shadows. But it will also show you the way forward. Grief is not the end of the story - it’s the beginning of a new one. One that’s deeper, richer, one that carries the weight of all that was and all that will be.

Grief is not about forgetting. It’s about remembering - that love, once known, never fades. It echoes through time, through loss, through generations, and through the heart that still dares to love.”