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How We Navigate Grief
How We Navigate Grief is where we name what’s hard, share what helps, and move forward without erasing the past.
By Blair Kaplan Venables
· Launched 2 years ago
I Survived a Grief Vortex and So Can You
Jan 7 • Blair Kaplan Venables
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Coming Home to Winnipeg: Why I’m Moving Back After 19 Years in BC
After nearly two decades in British Columbia, I’m relocating to the prairies. This is a love letter to the city that waited for me.
Jun 19 • Blair Kaplan Venables
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Grievorcée: A New Word for Grieving Someone Who Is Still Alive
Listen now | There was no word for what I am. So I had one made.
Jun 15 • Blair Kaplan Venables
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A Year After I Opened for Sir Richard Branson, and the Resilience Lessons That Stayed
One keynote in the Utah mountains. Thirty seconds with a billionaire. And a year of carrying what I learned back down the mountain.
Jun 10 • Blair Kaplan Venables
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MAYhem: The Highest Highs, the Lowest Low, and the Mother’s Day That Ended My Marriage
Listen now (8 mins) | A brutally honest recap of the best and worst month of my life: the retreat I hosted, the stages I stood on, the connections I…
Jun 8 • Blair Kaplan Venables
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Fifteen Years Fits in a 5x10 Storage Locker
It's just stuff. That's true. It's also a lie.
May 27 • Blair Kaplan Venables
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Hundreds of Goodbyes: A Poem on Endings, Beginnings, and the Butterflies That Found Me
Listen now | A poem about separation, transformation, and the hundreds of butterflies that met me at the shore.
May 25 • Blair Kaplan Venables
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I Thought I Was at Peace. I Was Wrong.
The moment I realized my nervous system had no idea what calm actually felt like, and what I did about it.
Apr 29 • Blair Kaplan Venables
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Kintsugi Healing: How Grief, Loss, and Love Rebuild a Broken Heart
A personal story of trauma, emotional numbness, and rediscovering love through grief, resilience, and the art of repair.
Apr 24 • Blair Kaplan Venables
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Confessions of a Treasure Hunter: How Collecting Rocks, Shells, and Sticks Became My Way Through Grief
A deeply human instinct rooted in nature, neuroscience, and the quiet need to hold onto something when life feels overwhelming.
Apr 5 • Blair Kaplan Venables
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The First Last Breath I Ever Witnessed: What Death Taught Me About Grief
From my aunt to my parents to my pets, I have sat at the edge of life more times than I can count.
Mar 27 • Blair Kaplan Venables
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From Broken Pieces to Times Square: How a Resilience Movement Took Over NYC
How the launch of RESILIENT A.F. Stories of Resilience Volume 3 turned a book release into a global moment of courage, community, and connection.
Mar 23 • Blair Kaplan Venables
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Five Books Later: 5 Lessons in Resilience
How talking about mental health, grief, and addiction turned into a global resilience movement.
Mar 6 • Blair Kaplan Venables
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What Is Aphantasia and is it fixable?
My plan to see my dead mom again.
Mar 4 • Blair Kaplan Venables
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How We Navigate Grief
How We Navigate Grief is where we name what’s hard, share what helps, and move forward without erasing the past.