Permission Slip

Short, stamped-style permission slips that push back on the pressure and myths grief brings — "you have to be strong," "it's time to move on" — and grant you the opposite instead

Permission Slip
GriefWork® · Companion to Foundations of Grief

Permission Slip

Grief comes with a lot of unspoken rules about how you're supposed to feel or act. Here's permission to ignore them.

WHAT YOU'VE BEEN TOLD

“You should be over it by now.”


PERMISSION GRANTED

You have permission to still be grieving, on whatever timeline this actually takes — not the one other people expected.

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