Although a few years have passed since her mom’s death, Maureen has learned that coping with loss isn’t linear. Some days she cries, and other days she talks to her mom as if she can still hear her. “Your grief is yours, no one else’s,” she said. “There is no right or wrong way to grieve, and there is no timeline. You can laugh or cry — but you have to acknowledge it. This pain demands to be felt. To feel it that deeply means you loved that deeply. And what a privilege that is.”
