"Grief can destroy you --or focus you. You can decide a relationship was all for nothing if it had to end in death, and you alone. OR you can realize that every moment of it had more meaning than you dared to recognize at the time, so much meaning it scared you, so you just lived, just took for... Sign in to see full entry.
Tuesday, April 29, 2025
Sunday, April 27, 2025
"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.
Saturday, April 26, 2025
"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 move on with your life. Your world has changed, and this new reality is unbearable. Remember to recognize that fear is a big part of your feelings. You may be afraid that you... Sign in to see full entry.
Friday, April 25, 2025
"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 take... Sign in to see full entry.
Thursday, April 24, 2025
"You will lose someone you can't live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn't seal back up. And you come through. It's like... Sign in to see full entry.
Wednesday, April 23, 2025
"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.
Tuesday, April 22, 2025
"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.
Monday, April 21, 2025
"A lot of things are inherent in life -change, birth, death, aging, illness, accidents, calamities, and losses of all kinds- but these events don't have to be the cause of ongoing suffering...If we dwelt on these positive states as much as we generally dwell on our negative thoughts and painful... Sign in to see full entry.
Sunday, April 20, 2025
From My Boof, "Dealing With Grief'
“Isn’t it weird,” I said, “the way you remember things when someone’s gone?” “What do you mean?” asked Wes. I ate another piece of waffle. “When my dad first died, all I could think about was that day. It’s taken me so long to be able to think back to before that, to everything else.” Wes was... Sign in to see full entry.
Saturday, April 19, 2025
"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.