Grief Is Love: Living with Loss

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And there’s very little that can actually offer any comfort from the pain. We seek ways to understand and explain what has happened but it is often in vain. After someone you love dies there is a time of transition. How long it can last is different for everyone and finding a new normal is a personal journey of self-discovery. Learning to fully comprehend my grief — the terrifying pain that accompanies it — and coming to a place of learning that grief is just love, has been transformative. Headstone epitaphs are, of course, a popular place for memorable quotes about grief and death – from the poignant to the funny… Grief can wash over you like a tsunami, making it impossible to sort through your emotions — much less articulate them in any coherent way.

The Love We Only Find In Loss - Whats your Grief The Love We Only Find In Loss - Whats your Grief

Pain and guilt. During this stage in grieving, the pain of the loss starts to set in. You may also feel guilty for needing more from family and friends during this emotional time.Grief is isolating, but it never leaves you alone. In the moments we wake up crying, the car rides with tears streaming, grief is our companion. When everyone moves on, forgetting our loss, #grief remembers.” — Laura Coward 4. Grief is a conversation of hearts. Can we ever really learn to live well in our grief and move on from the pain of our loss? I feel we will never move on from those we love, nor would many people wish to, however, we can move forward. We can learn to live with our loss and, eventually, the pain eases. We adapt. We move around our grief and we can eventually rebuild a life without our loved ones.

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The pain of grief can often cause you to want to withdraw from others and retreat into your shell. But having the face-to-face support of other people is vital to healing from loss. Even if you're not comfortable talking about your feelings under normal circumstances, it's important to express them when you're grieving. If you’re the one grieving, you know that the loss of your beloved saps your strength and ability to think clearly. Sadness and sorrow are completely normal, but you’re not always sure how to express what you’re feeling. They that love beyond the world cannot be separated by it. Death cannot kill what never dies. Nor can spirits ever be divided, that love and live in the same divine principle, the root and record of their friendship. If absence be not death, neither is theirs. Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas; they live in one another still. For they must needs be present, that love and live in that which is omnipresent. In this divine glass they see face to face; and their converse is free, as well as pure. This is the comfort of friends, that though they may be said to die, yet their friendship and society are, in the best sense, ever present, because immortal.” ― William Penn Bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love. It follows marriage as normally as marriage follows courtship or as autumn follows summer. – C.S. LewisWhether it’s a close friend, spouse, partner, parent, child, or other relative, few things are as painful as losing someone you love. After such a significant loss, life may never seem quite the same again. But in time, you can ease your sorrow, start to look to the future, and eventually come to terms with your loss. Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering grieving, to realize she slept a good night’s sleep, and will be able to eat breakfast, and doesn’t hear her husband’s ghost all the time, but only some of the time. Her grief is replaced with a useful sadness. Every parent who loses a child finds a way to laugh again. The timbre begins to fade. The edge dulls. The hurt lessens. Every love is carved from loss. Mine was. Yours is. Your great-great-great-grandchildren’s will be. But we learn to live in that love.” ― Jonathan Safran Foer I remember talking about my dad to a friend—how he was an incredible doctor, always put his family first, was loved by his friends, and celebrated the beauty of every single day despite its imperfections. She looked at me and said, “You know, he may have lived a short life. But he lived a whole life.” There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, a deep contrition, and of unspeakable love.” – Washington Irving The Apaches were a semi-nomadic tribe, and when this blessing was first wished, members would have had a very intimate understanding of the great outdoors, dividing their time between hunter-gathering and farming. So, as they went about their lives in the southwestern United States, the sun, moon, rain and breeze from those vast prairie skies would've been reassuring constants, no matter what challenges everyday life brought.