The Body Grief Journal

Living with anxiety and overwhelm can feel impossible. Some days are filled with meltdowns, panic, and exhaustion. This is a glimpse into one hard day, and how even small moments of care can help us keep going.

February arrives with its familiar flood of hearts, flowers, and messages urging us toward self-love. For many of us living with disability, chronic illness, chronic pain, trauma, or body grief, loving ourselves or loving our bodies can feel distant or even unreachable. When you have spent years surviving in systems that judge, erase, or harm bodies like yours, the insistence to “just love yourself” feels ridiculous and impossible. Within body grief, there is often a mourning

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