After My Wife's Death, My Daughter Helped Us Find A New Way To Grieve

The author

I remember the moment my daughter, Grace, gave our family the phrase that changed how we live with grief.

It was the second anniversary of her mother Mia’s death. Two years earlier, our lives had been split into a before and an after by a sudden, unimaginable event. One day, my wife was alive. The next, she was gone.

Overnight, I became a single parent to three children, and our home became a place where shock, sorrow and logistics lived side by side.

The first year was a blur.