"Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air." - Pablo Neruda It can feel almost painful to be in the same place where you lived before your loss. Everywhere you look are triggers that bring you back to the time before the death of your loved... Sign in to see full entry.
Sunday, August 14, 2022
Saturday, August 13, 2022
"... [They] took it upon themselves to start the laborious process of cranking up life again, after death has stopped us all in its tracks." - Diane Setterfield What small steps are you ready to take to begin the process of recovering from your loss? Choose something you can do without fear, such as... Sign in to see full entry.
Friday, August 12, 2022
“She always used to suspect that the price for happiness, the price for enjoying the company of a person you loved, was the steadily increasing risk of losing them, and at times, when she considered the possibility that she might lose Isabel or Clancy or, in the early days, Todd, Bernice didn’t... Sign in to see full entry.
Thursday, August 11, 2022
No One is Immortal - From My Vella Project -Dealing With Grief
“The idea of immortality, that like a sea has ebbed and flowed in the human heart, with its countless waves of hope and fear, beating against the shores and rocks of time and fate, was not born of any book, nor of any creed, nor of any religion. It was born of human affection, and it will continue... Sign in to see full entry.
Saturday, July 9, 2022
"For in grief nothing "stays put." One keeps on emerging from a phase, but it always recurs. Round and round. Everything repeats. Am I going in circles, or dare I hope I am on a spiral? But if a spiral, am I going up or down it? How often -- will it be for always? -- how often will the vast... Sign in to see full entry.
Friday, July 8, 2022
"What I was afraid of was my own grief, the weight of it, the ineluctable corrosive force of it, and the stark awareness I had of being, for the first time in my life, entirely alone, a Crusoe shipwrecked and stranded in the limitless wastes of a boundless and indifferent ocean." - John Banville The... Sign in to see full entry.
Thursday, July 7, 2022
"Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-Aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbelly of a household is never pretty, ours no exception. There were times I stayed in my room for days on end with headphones on, if only so that I would not... Sign in to see full entry.
Friday, June 24, 2022
"He'd lived long enough to know that everyone handled grief in different ways, and little by little, they all seemed to accept their new lives." - Nicholas Sparks, The Choice Think back to the week after you lost your loved one. If you are honest, you can see that you have made progress in your... Sign in to see full entry.
Thursday, June 23, 2022
"Tears of grief are unique. They contain chemicals that aren't found in the more mundane droplets of moisture that bathe the eyes, as if our tears wash us free of some noxious cause of sorrow. And tonight, after crying until I am empty, I have a rare glimpse of my own interior landscape - wounds... Sign in to see full entry.
Wednesday, June 22, 2022
"What they never tell you about grief is that missing someone is the simple part." - Gail Caldwell, Let's Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship Everyone in our lives plays a role. We have teachers, entertainers, confidants, and more. The loss of someone created empty places. Was this the... Sign in to see full entry.