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In 2021, MiShon experienced 10 major losses in 10 months, with 9 of them being unexpected. This is about her grief and healing journey.

These included her oldest son, mom, dad, cousin, pastor, and last living grandparents as well as 3 family friends.

06/19/2026

Today marks your 5th Angelversary, my dear son. 🕊️🫂❤️‍🩹

Earlier, as I was preparing for your special dinner gathering and buying 31 balloons to celebrate the number of years you lived, I received this message by way of a complete stranger:

“This is a season to refocus your energy, realign your priorities, and restore balance to your life.”

It stopped me for a moment. As you know, there are days when grief hits heavy, and yet I still believe that grief is the gift of love. It’s the evidence, the undeniable proof that I loved you so deeply, and that I was in turn equally loved by you.

I’ve committed myself to years of therapy and to the long, winding work of healing. I’ve also found unexpected purpose in facilitating the monthly Grief Healing Circles ⭕️ through my newly formed company, Grief Journey LLC. Holding space for others who carry their own losses has become one of the ways I stay connected to you. It reminds me that love doesn’t end; it transforms, it expands, it listens, it sits quietly besides others, and sometimes it teaches.

But on days like today, the ache returns with a bit sharper edge. I miss your boisterous laugh, your presence, your physical place in this world. And yet, I also feel you in the quiet moments, in the signs that show up when I least expect them, in the strength that rises in me when I think I have none left.

So tonight, as I light your candle, and place your beautiful blue flowers at your gravesite, as well as release your 31 balloons into the sky with friends and family, I’m choosing to honor both truths: the weight of missing you and the blessing of having been your mother.

I’m choosing to celebrate the years you lived, not just the years you’ve been gone. I’m choosing to keep healing, keep loving, and keep growing because that’s what you would want for me.

And I’m choosing to believe that this “season of refocusing and realigning” is not a coincidence.

Maybe it’s another message from you. Maybe it’s a reminder that even in grief, life continues to unfold with meaning.

Thank you for the love that still shapes me.

Thank you for the lessons that continue long after your physical presence left this world.

Thank you for being mine. 🫂

Always and forever,

Mom 💙

06/13/2026

Some Losses Shape You Before You Even Know What Loss Is

I lost my biological father when I was 18 months old.
At that age, you don’t have words for grief. You don’t understand death.
But your body does. Your nervous system does. Your heart does.

For years, I didn’t realize that the emptiness I felt growing up, the questions, the searching, the sense that something was missing, was grief. Not the loud kind people talk about, but the quiet kind that settles into your bones before you even know who you are.

When I was four, my mom married the man who became my dad in every way that mattered. He raised me. He loved me. He showed up. He filled spaces he didn’t create, and he never asked for credit. He was simply there… steady, warm, and constant.

And then in 2021, after my mom died, he followed her just two days later.
People say you can’t die of a broken heart, but I watched it happen.
I felt it happen.

Losing him was a different kind of grief, not the grief of absence I never got to understand, but the grief of presence I had known and counted on. The grief of losing the person who stepped in when life took someone else away.

Research says that losing a parent can shake your identity, your emotional stability, your sense of safety in the world. Studies show that parental loss, especially early in life can echo through adulthood in ways you don’t always recognize until much later. And losing a parent in adulthood can reopen old wounds you didn’t know were still there.

But research can only explain so much.

What it can’t capture is what it feels like to lose two fathers in one lifetime, one before you could speak, and one who loved you enough to break when your mother was gone.

What it can’t capture is how grief can be both an old companion and a new one.
How it can hollow you out and grow you at the same time.
How it can make you feel both younger and older than you are.

I’m still learning what all of this means.
I’m still learning who I am without them.
But I know this: grief doesn’t just mark you. It shapes you.
And sometimes, it teaches you the depth of love you were held in, even long after the people who gave it are gone.

MiShon Landry
Grief Alchemist
https://linktr.ee/grief_journey

Honoring the resilience of navigating loss while giving hope to others. Transforming sorrow into shared wisdom by giving voice to the emotions we carry through loss.

05/20/2026

Happy Heavenly Anniversary 🕊️ to the best parents a person could've ever wished for... were they perfect, absolutely not, but who of us is?

My parents died only ten days apart from one another. My dad’s last words were that ‘he didn’t want to be alone anymore,’ after my mom coincidentally took her last breath on my late son’s birthday and his first celebration of life.

Two days after burying my mom, my dad passed. It was a shock to my entire system and I still remember the doctor telling me that they did all that they could do. It was as if I was reliving a scene out of a movie or a TV show and I just wanted someone to wake me up from the terrible nightmare.

In February, I lost both my last living grandparents only days apart, on Father’s Day weekend, my oldest son was in a fatal automobile crash. Three weeks later my first cousin unexpectedly passed away, followed a month later by my pastor of more than fifteen years.

Then my mom only four months after losing my son, and now my dad too!

I actually had a flash back of Ashton Kushner’s show, Punked and honestly felt like this was an extreme new version of his show, like how could this really be happening?

I remember staring at my husband in disbelief and thinking, okay when was everyone going to come out of the closets and yell out that this was all a big prank!

Through my Grief Journey I have learned about various types of grief, and the type of grief that I’m describing is known as Complicated (or Prolonged) Grief, which is a grief that becomes stuck, overwhelming, or difficult to process
because the loss is layered, traumatic, or unresolved.

I also learned that this was primarily due to Cumulative Grief, where multiple losses stack on top of each other, often without time to recover
between them. Each new loss often reactivates the old ones.

Understanding these grief types as well as others helps individuals recognize grief even when it’s hidden or mislabeled.

Responding with empathy rather than judgment and normalizing our own emotional reaction is key as this helps to create safer, more attuned environments for grievers.

Some of the things I share with others in my trauma-informed grief literacy sessions is:

✅Respect Each Person’s Grief Style: Everyone grieves differently.
▪ Some want to talk; others prefer privacy.
▪ Some need structure; others need flexibility.
Let them lead. Follow their cues. Don’t assume silence means healing.

✅Make Space for Their Story. Invite individuals to share if they want to. Listening without fixing is one of the most powerful forms of support.
▪ Avoid using “silver linings.”
▪ Avoid phrases like “moving on” or “closure.”

✅Acknowledge the Loss Directly. Simple, honest statements go a long way. Validation is often the thing individuals receive the least.
▪ Acknowledge that waves of grief may return weeks, months, or years later.
▪ Validate that anniversaries, triggers, and quiet moments can reopen the loss
Use supportive language: “It’s okay that this still hurts. You loved your child or parents deeply.”

I miss my parents so much words that cannot even express just how much I truly miss them and how deeply my heart longs for the two of them.

Happy Heavenly Anniversary. 🍾🥂

05/11/2026

Repost Lennnie
Itslennnie 🫂❤️‍🩹🥹

05/10/2026

🌺 Happy Heavenly Mother’s Day 🕊️

Love and miss you so very much mom! 💞🌸💗🌸💞

05/09/2026

Mother's Day Grief 🕊️

The things no one wants to say, but often feels...

Thank you The Weekend Watch

05/08/2026

Mother’s Day has a different kind of feeling when you’ve lost a child, although I still have two beautiful children living, another son and a daughter, the void and pain associated with child loss is indescribable. Only mothers who have lost a child can comprehend this emotion.

I never thought I’d be a part of the Vilomah Club (not in a million years), in fact, I had no idea it even existed until I joined on June 19, 2021, when my son lost his life in a fatal car accident.

I don’t expect for others to understand, and I pray that they never become a part of this club, but if you know someone who’s lost a child, the best advice that I can offer is to:

❤️‍🩹Provide listening, not assumptions.
Let them share what they need to share, without deciding what their grief should look like.

❤️‍🩹Provide compassion, not comparison.
Avoid phrases like “I know how you feel.” Every loss is its own landscape.

❤️‍🩹Provide patience, not pressure.
Healing doesn’t follow a timeline, and no one should be rushed through their grief journey.

❤️‍🩹Provide acknowledgment, not avoidance.
Say their child’s name. Mention their loss. Silence can feel like erasure.

❤️‍🩹Provide support, not solutions.
Grief isn’t a problem to fix, it’s a reality to honor.

❤️‍🩹Provide presence, not platitudes.
“Everything happens for a reason” or “They’re in a better place” can unintentionally wound. It can also impose beliefs upon a person without knowing.

❤️‍🩹Provide understanding, not expectations.
Some days they may talk. Some days they may withdraw. Both are valid.

❤️‍🩹Provide steadiness, not inconsistency.
Check in long after the funeral. Grief lasts far beyond the moment others move on.

❤️‍🩹Provide love, not limits.
Let them grieve in their own way, at their own pace, without telling them how they “should” feel.

Grief this deep doesn’t need to be fixed; it needs to be witnessed. It needs room to breathe. It needs people willing to sit in the silence without trying to fill it. If you’re walking alongside someone on their grief journey, your compassion can become one of the few steady things they can hold onto.

Walking this path has taught me that survival isn’t weakness, it’s courage. Every day we choose to keep going is a testament to the love we carry and the strength we never knew we had. We don’t move on; we move forward, one breath at a time.

If you’re part of this painful club too, I hope you feel seen. I hope you feel understood. And I hope you know that you don’t have to walk your grief journey alone. There is a quiet community here; one built on compassion, remembrance, and the kind of love that never fades. ❤️‍🩹

Praying for a gentle Mother’s Day🌺

MiShon Landry
Ellis’s bereaved mom
Alex & Chelsea’s mom
Grief Alchemist
Grief Journey LLC

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