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Discover how clear, honest language helps families navigate grief together. Part 2 of The Silent Hum's Grief Literacy series explores why naming loss with children builds understanding, safety, and connection. Essential reading for New Zealand families facing loss and seeking meaningful ways to communicate with their children.

What does it mean to be 'literate' in grief? For families in NZ and beyond, grief literacy is the key to navigating loss with compassion. In part one of our series, we explore how understanding the language of grief can help us heal together and build resilient families.

How do you grieve a child you've lost while fighting for a child in crisis? A father's raw reflection on the impossible triage of grief - learning to hold loss and hope simultaneously while supporting whānau through unimaginable challenges.

The messages arrive like small, glowing birds on the screen of a phone you don’t have the energy to lift. They all say a version of the same sentence... "Let me know if you need anything." It is a well-intentioned, generous, and utterly useless offer. In the landscape of crisis—whether it’s the sterile, beeping world of a hospital ward or the heavy silence of a grieving home—a person’s capacity is the first casualty.

Grief literacy is not theory. It’s how families, children, and communities learn to carry loss together with clarity, honesty, and presence.