"When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time - the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that... Sign in to see full entry.
Thursday, April 27, 2023
Wednesday, April 26, 2023
"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear." - C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed. You may be asking yourself how you can possibly move on with your life. Your world has changed, and this new reality is unbearable. Try to recognize that a big part of how you are feeling is fear. You may be afraid... Sign in to see full entry.
Tuesday, April 25, 2023
"Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them." - Leo Tolstoy. When we love someone - be it a friend, family member, or spouse - we open ourselves up to the potential for loss. Yet, we... Sign in to see full entry.
Sunday, April 23, 2023
"The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember with. It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself, as if the things we'd done were less real and important than they had been hours before." - John Green, The Fault in Our... Sign in to see full entry.
Saturday, April 22, 2023
"I will not say, do not weep, for not all tears are an evil." - J.R.R. Tolkien You may be trying to hide your tears. It might feel like you are being strong by not crying. To cry is not to be weak but rather to release your sorrow so that you can let go of it and move forward. You may need to cry... Sign in to see full entry.
Friday, April 21, 2023
"In grief, part of the pain comes from our feeling that we should not suffer so - that it is fundamentally alien to our being, this even though we all suffer, and frequently. Yet we reject suffering as a basic human truth, while greeting joy as integral to our very substance." - Wendy Beckett,... Sign in to see full entry.
Thursday, April 20, 2023
"You endure what is supposedly unbearable, and before you know it, you would have done the impossible by bearing the unbearable." - Donovan People told you things would slowly get better, but until you survive the first year of grief, that can be hard to believe. Looking back, you have made it... Sign in to see full entry.
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... Sign in to see full entry.
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. Sign in to see full entry.
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... Sign in to see full entry.