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603 Days: Choosing Myself After Loss

603 Days: Choosing Myself After Loss

Healing makes you realize that you should be afraid of losing yourself by trying to please everyone.

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Jennifer Julien Gaskin
Jul 20, 2025
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It’s been 603 days.

603 days since Daniel transitioned from this world. Since I last heard him breathe, laugh, or whisper “you got this” when I didn’t think I did.

Since the quiet of grief settled into the corners of my life and made a home in my bones.

And now… now I’m emerging. Slowly. Tenderly. Fog lifting. Spirit stirring.

I’m figuring out my life. A li…

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