Losing my Dad and Myself at the Same Time

Amanda Steel
3 min readAug 3, 2021

How grief changed me

Image: Pixabay — Gerd Altmann

Losing myself

When my dad died of cancer, it took me a long time to get to a point in my life where I could be okay, considering the bereavement. Of course I missed him, but I never expected to miss myself as well. I was still here, but I wasn’t the same me I had been before.

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Amanda Steel

Author, editor of Printed Words, co-host of Reading in Bed (podcast). copywriter and ghostwriter. https://amandasteelwriter.wordpress.com/