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Life is complicated. Mortality is challenging. Disability, grief, caregiving, and other experiences are messy and scary. But we're in this together.
This blog is about facing life's most difficult moments with honesty, compassion, and a commitment to living fully. I'm not here to offer easy answers or toxic positivity. I'm here to share real stories, practical advice, and hard-won wisdom about navigating life's most challenging terrains—from caregiving and loss to personal growth and resilience.
The reason I write is not just to document my experiences, but to create a community of people who understand that vulnerability is strength. To remind you that your story matters. To show you that you're not alone in your struggles, your grief, your hope.
I'll continue to share my most raw and honest experiences. I'll write about grief, about love, about survival. About the moments that break us and the moments that remake us. I'll offer practical guides, personal essays, and tools that might help you navigate your own challenging landscapes.
In return, I hope you'll bring your own stories. Your own resilience. Your own hard-earned wisdom.
If at any time you feel overwhelmed, remember: your pain is valid. Your survival is an act of resistance. And you are not alone.
Onward, with hope and solidarity.
Elizabeth
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Who am I?
I’m Elizabeth Kleinfeld, a writer, professor, Buddhist, disabled person, and optimist living in Denver, Colorado. I am writing a memoir about being my amazing husband Tom's caregiver for the year before he died. My essays about grief have been published in The Boston Globe, Herstry, Bright Flash Literary Review, and in an anthology about the 2020 pandemic, and my work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. I was named a Best Emerging Writer of 2024 by Master’s Review.
I draw from my experiences as both a caregiver and widow to support terminally ill patients and their families as a certified end-of-life doula. I am currently completing certification in therapeutic journaling to help others process grief and trauma through writing. I direct the Writing Center at Metropolitan State University of Denver. My academic work focuses on disability justice, rhetorics of oppression, and writing center pedagogy.
When not writing or teaching, I can be found dancing rumba, traveling, or experimenting with new recipes in the kitchen.
I hope you’ll stick around here at Here for All of It, where I explore how to show up and really be present with tough stuff like fear of rejection, loss, and inadequacy.
