"Sydney discovers that she minds the loss of her mourning. When she grieved, she felt herself to be intimately connected to Daniel. But with each passing day, he floats away from her. When she thinks about him now, it is more as a lost possibility than as a man. She has forgotten his breath, his... Sign in to see full entry.
Friday, February 23, 2024
Thursday, February 22, 2024
"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anybody can start today and make a new ending." - Maria Robinson. You've probably been spending a lot of time looking back and reflecting on the times you spent with your loved one. Don't forget to look forward as well. Sign in to see full entry.
Wednesday, February 21, 2024
"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.
Tuesday, February 20, 2024
"The people who have the best advice are usually the ones who have been through the most." - Anonymous. Some day, you will be an enormous comfort to someone else who is experiencing loss. There is wisdom that comes from this terrible journey you are on right now. Sign in to see full entry.
Monday, February 19, 2024
"I realized that it was not that I didn't want to go on without him. I did. It was just that I didn't know why I wanted to go on." - Kay Redfield Jamison, Nothing Was the Same Could you do something that you have never done before? This doesn't mean skydiving or running a marathon. Make your bed... Sign in to see full entry.
Saturday, February 17, 2024
"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... Sign in to see full entry.
Monday, December 11, 2023
"Community is about sharing my life; about allowing the chaos of another's circumstances to infringe on mine; about permitting myself to be known without constraint; about resigning myself to needing others." - Sandy Oshiro Rosen, Bare: The Misplaced Art of Grieving and Dancing Even if you have... Sign in to see full entry.
Sunday, December 10, 2023
"The sunlight now lay over the valley perfectly still. I went over to the graveyard beside the church and found them under the old cedars... I am finding it a little hard to say that I felt them resting there, but I did. I felt their completeness as whatever they had been in the world. I knew I had... Sign in to see full entry.
Saturday, December 9, 2023
"And they had folded his brother's hands across his suited chest as if he would be preserved in this sanguine pose forever, but only the heavy callouses visible at the sides of his hands seemed real. It was only the callouses that appeared to be familiar and believable." - Kent Haruf, Eventide.... Sign in to see full entry.
Friday, December 8, 2023
"If it is possible to die of grief, then why on earth can't someone be healed by happiness?" - Jodi Picoult, Keeping Faith Your moments of joy are to be savored, but they won't prevent grief from creeping in at times. Once you make peace with that, the moments of grief won't catch you off guard... Sign in to see full entry.