This Grief Journey…

Cat Li Stevenson
5 min readSep 13, 2020
Christmas 2018, Dad and his girls.

Earlier this year, I very unexpectedly lost my dad. He was my favorite person in the whole world — the most good-natured and delightful human I know. On January 18th at 9:55pm, I woke up to a panicked and hysterical phone call from my step-mom that I will never forget. That night as I laid in bed, I felt like I was ripped open in a million pieces. That first week following his death was an intensity that I’d never experienced, except with labor and the…

Cat Li Stevenson

SF via AZ. Explorer of the human journey, and waking up in Mamahood. I write about healing, mothering, grief, & love.✨