How to Treat a Bereaved Mother: A Possible Guide. {poetry}
How someone bereaved feels and how they choose to, or very often just do, act is valid, even if, to an outsider, they seem to have lost control.
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Embrace Your Grief Even If It Hurts. {poetry}
I hold grief like it's my friend. It hurts, but I embrace it. I will release it when I've fully processed its grip. I will let it go when I’m ready.
We Must Collectively Learn How to Love Better.
Lean into the fire and see where you are not yet free. Where you do not accept yourself, what needs to be grieved and what is hard to love.
Wake Up! Grief Needs Something From Your Heart.
If you haven’t lost anyone close, you don’t understand how grief batters you every day, drags you down, rearranges your life.
It Is Important to Acknowledge Your Grief.
What's sexy is someone who is literate in the ways of their heart, knows how to court grief with love, compassion and kindness, for themselves and others.
The Creative Capacity of Grief.
We borrow grief rituals from other cultures and forget that these cultures also make a daily space to feel grief... and allow the heart to unburden itself.
Not Alone: Grieving the Loss of My Child. {poetry}
How could they? How selfish? How ignorant for anyone to think they have the right to judge such tragedy and loss? How dare you?
’Tis the Season… for Holiday Overwhelm and Hallmark Hell.
Maybe the days are laced with more than a little overwhelm as you navigate the missing of what once was, or the ache for who is no longer here.
The Blessing I Received Through Mourning My Mom.
Moving from grief into mourning is accepting that the loss has occurred, feeling it fully, and actively moving through it, so that it is transformed.
Climate Story: The Great Potential.
Current predictions give 10-12 years before climate catastrophe is realized... We would do well to accept a future defined by climate change.