The Elusive Grief

Introduction

Grief does not always look the way we expect it to. For many professionals, it does not arrive as collapse, but as continuation. Emails answered. Meetings attended. Life sustained, even as something irrevocable has shifted beneath the surface.

In this reflective essay, Latasha L. Green-Boyd, LCSW, LMFT explores grief as an ongoing relationship rather than a singular event. Through the lens of caregiving, loss, and embodied memory, this piece invites readers to consider how love persists beyond absence, how contradiction can be held without resolution, and how grief quietly reshapes the architecture of who we are.

This is not a guide for “moving on.”

It is an acknowledgment of moving forward while carrying what remains.