Saturday, February 18, 2023
"The difference between shallow happiness and a deep, sustaining joy is sorrow. Happiness lives where sorrow is not. When sorrow arrives, happiness dies. It can't stand pain. Joy, on the other hand, rises from sorrow and therefore can withstand all grief. Joy, by the grace of God, is the...
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Friday, February 17, 2023
"Loving someone means that you will inevitable grieve for them; love is an engraved invitation for grief." - Sunshine O'Donnell, Open Me. Continue to treasure the love you have for your loved one. By having loved, you can love again.
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Thursday, February 16, 2023
"Psychoanalysis is often about turning our ghosts into ancestors, even for patients who have not lost loved ones to death. We are often haunted by important relationships from the past that influence us unconsciously in the present. As we work them through, they go from haunting us to becoming...
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Wednesday, February 15, 2023
"Everyone grieves in different ways. For some, it could take longer or shorter. I do know it never disappears. An ember still smolders inside me. Most days, I don't notice it, but, out of the blue, it'll flare to life." - Maria V. Snyder, Storm Glass When grief is your every day, it's hard to...
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Tuesday, February 14, 2023
"Remember that grief is a necessary pain. It's your only way to heal. To starve it will destroy you." - S.M. Boyce, Lichgates Do not hold back your tears, your words, and your feelings. Grieving is not always pretty, but it is how we heal our hearts from great loss.
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Monday, February 13, 2023
"He felt lighter than he had in weeks, and he realized that the monster he had been running from wasn't really a monster after all. It was simply that place in the heart that holds the measure of your history, the joy and the grief, the laughter and the tears, the magic and the wonder; all the...
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Sunday, February 12, 2023
"I know now what was happening to me, what was overwhelming me, what was about to consume and almost destroy me. Didier had even given me a name for it - assassin grief, he'd once called it: the kind of grief that lies in wait and attacks you from ambush with no warning and no mercy. I know now that...
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Saturday, February 11, 2023
"I had always turned to books, to knowledge, to help me get through everything in my life - and, sometimes, to escape it. But grief was a journey through a forest of razor blades. I walked through every painful inch of it - no shortcuts and no anesthesia." - Michele Bardsley, Don't Talk Back To Your...
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Friday, February 10, 2023
"What madness, to love a man as something more than human! I lived in a fever, convulsed with tears and sighs that allowed me neither rest nor peace of mind. My soul was a burden, bruised and bleeding. It was tired of the man who carried it, but I found no place to set it down to rest. Neither the...
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Thursday, February 9, 2023
"[A] person whose head is bowed and whose eyes are heavy cannot look at the light." - Christine de Pizan, Ditié de Jehanne d'Arc Take an empty grocery bag and walk around your neighborhood. Pick up any trash you see along your route and dispose of it in the bag. Work towards making your environment...
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