The Work Breakupš‘‹Making Space for Grief

Courtney Branson
8 min readAug 9, 2022

My journey with professional loss and the poetry that got me through it.

Photo by Morgan Basham on Unsplash

Fragments of and in an empty room.

Grief is the response to a loss. Growing up, I viewed grief as an experience based on proximity to death. As time ticks on, my view expands. While the depth of grief will be unique to the person and the loss, the physical + emotional pain, the non-linear pangs ofā€¦

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