"I have lived with you and loved you, and now you are gone. Gone where I cannot follow, until I have finished all of my days." - Victoria Hanley, The Seer and the Sword When you are in mourning, your instinct may be to withdraw from society until you feel better. However, by isolating yourself, you... Sign in to see full entry.
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Thursday, June 1, 2023
"We are imperfect mortal beings, aware of that mortality even as we push it away, failed by our very complication, so wired that when we mourn our losses we also mourn, for better or for worse, ourselves. as we were. as we are no longer. as we will one day not be at all." - Joan Didion, The Year of... Sign in to see full entry.
Wednesday, May 31, 2023
"The whole world can become the enemy when you lose what you love." - Kristina McMorris, Bridge of Scarlet Leaves. There will be times when you feel more anger than sorrow. While this is natural, do not let the anger take over how you see the world. Know that this feeling will pass and that the... Sign in to see full entry.
Tuesday, May 30, 2023
"We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn,' and I accept it. I've got nothing that I hadn't bargained for. Of course it is different when the thing happens to oneself, not to others, and in reality, not imagination." - C.S. Lewis, A... Sign in to see full entry.
Monday, May 29, 2023
"It's funny, how one can look back on a sorrow one thought one might well die of at the time, and know that one had not yet reckoned the tenth part of true grief." - Jacqueline Carey, Kushiel's Dart One of the few positives about your grief is that it puts the rest of your life's problems in... Sign in to see full entry.
Sunday, May 28, 2023
"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing." - C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed. Fear or feelings like fear are a normal byproduct of grief. The... Sign in to see full entry.
Saturday, May 27, 2023
"I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got through it." - Jodi Picoult, Change of Heart. It bears repeating that you never "get over" your loss. You simply learn to live with it. Sign in to see full entry.
"I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got through it." - Jodi Picoult, Change of Heart. It bears repeating that you never "get over" your loss. You simply learn to live with it. Sign in to see full entry.
Thursday, May 25, 2023
Suppressed grief suffocates. It rages within the breast and is forced to multiply its strength. - Ovid If you hide how you are feeling, it slowly consumes you. Go online, call a friend, or find a grief support group. Pretending that you are "handling" your grief alone does not make it go away.... Sign in to see full entry.
Wednesday, May 24, 2023
"Grief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance." - Andrew Solomon, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression. When you are grieving, you feel down. It seems like it is a constant presence at times. This is normal and typical. It may frighten... Sign in to see full entry.