Grief is an essential component of the healing process that should be embraced rather than suppressed.

“I also say that in in that when we are when we are doing the work of healing and when I say work, I'm not saying like we're efforting out of healing but out of grief. What we're doing is we are making friends with grief. Grief is part of the healing process.”

While repressing emotions can be a functional short-term survival strategy for dealing with acute trauma, chronic emotional avoidance eventually becomes toxic and hinders the healing process.

“repressing emotions in the short term is a valuable tool you know if you're unable to function in terms of high stress in the moment you could lose your life you could make a really bad decision you could harm others you might not be able to successfully hold down a job but if you do that for a real”

Matt believes that discussing personal emotions openly is a healthy way to cope with bad situations.

“I think I like us opening up about like [ __ ] yes and being emotional and like just opening up our heart and being vulnerable and just us being unfiltered with us crying on the no exactly so no but I'm glad it's turning into something we're like we're gonna just open up and talk about whatever we w”

Healing from grief comes from honoring and expressing emotions rather than suppressing them or attempting to move on from the loss.

“I think we have to start with acknowledging the grief and then expressing it, not suppressing it.”

Khalyla believes that grief is a process that must be expressed, regardless of the form it takes.

“I think that it's it's a process you have to go through no matter what and you have to expect it it will come out in one way or another so just well it is it a chance where it won't come out hmm unlikely probably come on it always comes out”

Grief is a non-linear process that hits everyone differently, and it is acceptable to feel and express a variety of emotions.

“I think at the end of the day, you need to listen and trust your heart because grief comes in so many waves, so many different emotions. You're going to wake up, you're going to feel numb. You're going to wake up, you're going to feel sad, you're going to feel angry”

Grief is a persistent experience that individuals learn to live with and adapt to over time rather than something one fully moves on from.

“It's not something that ever really goes away. It's something that you learn to like live with. It's just like You grow around your grief and with your grief. You don't grow from it. It never leaves you. It's always with you. It's just how you grow with it and learning how to adapt to that.”

Grief is a non-linear, ongoing, and lifelong experience that requires personal resilience and support systems to endure.

“I tell people all the time, you know, like there's no specific order in which you grieve. You know, for me going through this film and also working on a book, it brings back every thought, every memory.”

Grief over the loss of a child does not have a set end point or finish line; it is a permanent experience that one learns to live alongside forever.

“I think people look at grief as stages or at some point it's going to end. The pain is going to end. We look at grief as this finish line. I feel like for a lot of people of I grieved for this amount of time or I was sad for this amount of time and then that's not how it works. It's it's never endin”

Grief after pregnancy loss is a lifelong journey without a set timeline or end point.

“I've made peace with the fact that I'm going to grieve her the rest of my life. And so like there's no rush to this to to this stage, you know, where you're trying to memorialize and thinking of everything.”