"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.
Sunday, April 23, 2023
Saturday, April 22, 2023
"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.
Friday, April 21, 2023
"In grief, part of the pain comes from our feeling that we should not suffer so - that it is fundamentally alien to our being, this even though we all suffer, and frequently. Yet we reject suffering as a basic human truth, while greeting joy as integral to our very substance." - Wendy Beckett,... Sign in to see full entry.
Thursday, April 20, 2023
"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.
Saturday, February 18, 2023
"The difference between shallow happiness and a deep, sustaining joy is sorrow. Happiness lives where sorrow is not. When sorrow arrives, happiness dies. It can't stand pain. Joy, on the other hand, rises from sorrow and therefore can withstand all grief. Joy, by the grace of God, is the... Sign in to see full entry.
Friday, February 17, 2023
"Loving someone means that you will inevitable grieve for them; love is an engraved invitation for grief." - Sunshine O'Donnell, Open Me. Continue to treasure the love you have for your loved one. By having loved, you can love again. Sign in to see full entry.
Thursday, February 16, 2023
"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.
Wednesday, February 15, 2023
"Everyone grieves in different ways. For some, it could take longer or shorter. I do know it never disappears. An ember still smolders inside me. Most days, I don't notice it, but, out of the blue, it'll flare to life." - Maria V. Snyder, Storm Glass When grief is your every day, it's hard to... Sign in to see full entry.
Tuesday, February 14, 2023
"Remember that grief is a necessary pain. It's your only way to heal. To starve it will destroy you." - S.M. Boyce, Lichgates Do not hold back your tears, your words, and your feelings. Grieving is not always pretty, but it is how we heal our hearts from great loss. Sign in to see full entry.
Monday, February 13, 2023
"He felt lighter than he had in weeks, and he realized that the monster he had been running from wasn't really a monster after all. It was simply that place in the heart that holds the measure of your history, the joy and the grief, the laughter and the tears, the magic and the wonder; all the... Sign in to see full entry.