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The One Who Knew All My Secrets
A deeply personal reflection on the loss of my soul-cat, Jax, and the truth about pet grief. This isn’t “just an animal” grief — it’s love, absence, and…
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Heather Honold
What If Deathbed Visions Aren’t Hallucinations at All?
Are deathbed visions confusion, or are the dying seeing something we can’t? This piece explores why these moments deserve wonder, not dismissal, and how…
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Heather Honold
The Quiet That Makes You Panic
When you’ve lived in fight-or-flight for years, stillness can feel more dangerous than the grind. Here’s why — and how to make peace with it.
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Heather Honold
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When Someone Dies and You Never Forgave them
Not every loss is softened by love or forgiveness. Sometimes grief is about the ache of unfinished chapters and the endings we didn’t choose. This is…
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Heather Honold
How to Plan for Your Death Without Fear (and Why You Should)
End-of-life planning doesn’t have to feel scary or morbid. Learn why creating advance directives, naming a healthcare proxy, and writing your wishes is…
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Heather Honold
What If Healing Doesn’t Look Like Forgiveness?
Because for some of us, it never will.
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Heather Honold
What Is the Difference Between Grief, Mourning, and Bereavement?
Ever wonder what really separates grief from mourning—or what bereavement actually means? This post gently untangles the differences we rarely talk…
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Heather Honold
A Witch’s First Harvest: Creativity, Collapse, and the Quiet Magic of August
Honoring the early harvest, the sacred slowdown, and the truths that arrive in August heat
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Heather Honold

July 2025

Our Death-Phobic Culture Is Hurting Us
In a world that hides from death, we’ve lost more than ritual—we’ve lost connection. This post explores how cultural death denial shapes our lives, our…
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Heather Honold
Imagine Living for 500 Years
Imagine a 500-year life not as a legacy project, but as a return to the earth. This essay is a grounding spell for anyone longing to live more fully.
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Heather Honold
The Timeline Is a Lie: There Is No ‘After’ Grief
We’ve been told grief has an endpoint—something to get through, get over, and then move on from. But real grief doesn’t look like that. It’s not linear…
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Heather Honold
You Are Going to Die (Now What?)
This first post in the Death & Dying series is an honest, grounding invitation to face your own mortality—and to start living with intention, not…
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Heather Honold
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