Grieving well is punk rock.

What I learned about sadness from an African ritualist

Photo by Diana Polekhina on Unsplash

I’m excited to talk about grief. I know it’s weird and contradictory but stay with me.

Whether we don’t want to burden anyone or we can’t find the words or the appropriate time or safe enough place, or we think they just won’t get it — so many of us go through our pain really privately, in the…