{"id":18098,"date":"2025-12-02T23:57:54","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T23:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shop-cili.com\/?p=18098"},"modified":"2025-12-02T23:57:54","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T23:57:54","slug":"the-language-of-grief-how-i-used-this-language-to-create-a-new-life-after-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shop-cili.com\/?p=18098","title":{"rendered":"THE LANGUAGE OF GRIEF: How I used this language to create a new life after loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>There are moments that divide your life into \u201cbefore\u201d and \u201cafter.\u201d For me, that moment came on May 19, 2000\u2014the day my four-year-old son, Drew, passed away. The language of grief In the beginning, I didn\u2019t know how to speak the language of this new world. Everything familiar suddenly felt foreign. Colours dulled, sounds dimmed and even my own laughter, when it came, felt like it belonged to someone else. People spoke to me, but their words didn\u2019t land. They [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The post THE LANGUAGE OF GRIEF: How I used this language to create a new life after loss appeared first on The Mindful Word.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are moments that divide your life into \u201cbefore\u201d and \u201cafter.\u201d For me, that moment came on May 19, 2000\u2014the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shop-cili.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shop-cili.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shop-cili.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shop-cili.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shop-cili.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shop-cili.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shop-cili.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shop-cili.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shop-cili.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}