04/17/2026
Body grief is something most of us will experience at some point in our lives.
It’s the grief that shows up when your body changes or doesn’t change the way you expected it to.
After pregnancy. After diagnosis. After surgery. After injury. After aging does what aging does.
It can sound like:
“I don’t recognize myself.”
“My body used to be able to do that.”
“This isn’t what I thought it would look like.”
Body grief doesn’t always look like sadness. Sometimes it looks like avoidance. Disconnection. Frustration that doesn’t seem to have a name.
And it often goes unspoken. We live in a culture that’s more comfortable telling you to “love your body” than letting you grieve it.
But naming it matters. Not to fix it. Not to rush through it. Just to let it be what it is: a real loss that deserves real acknowledgment.
