"When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing." - Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian Have you been able to laugh yet? Can you see the humor in everyday things as you once did? With great loss and sadness comes an inability to... Sign in to see full entry.
Thursday, June 6, 2024
Wednesday, June 5, 2024
"I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures....We tell the story to get them back, to capture the traces of footfalls through the snow." - Gail Caldwell, Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship Tell a story... Sign in to see full entry.
Tuesday, June 4, 2024
"Never compare your grief. You - and only you walk your path." - Nathalie Himmelrich, Grieving Parents: Surviving Loss as a Couple How long did it take you to learn to read?...to drive?...to commit to a relationship? Grief is as personal as every other part of your life. Do not worry because you... Sign in to see full entry.
Sunday, June 2, 2024
"When you lose your parents, the sadness doesn't go away. It just changes. It hits you sideways sometimes instead of head-on. Like now." - Jude Watson, In Too Deep Your loss may make you feel out of control. That can lead to a downward spiral across all parts of your life if you allow it to do so.... Sign in to see full entry.
Saturday, June 1, 2024
"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.
Friday, May 31, 2024
"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.
Thursday, May 30, 2024
"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 anger... Sign in to see full entry.
Wednesday, May 29, 2024
"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.
Tuesday, May 28, 2024
"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.
Monday, May 27, 2024
"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.