My parents have this saying that I just love, “Everybody’s got their thing.” And what they mean by that is every person we encounter is carrying around with them a trauma, a burden, a rejection, a hurt, a grief. Everybody. I would add this: The only people that don’t have a “thing” are the people … Continue reading The Goodness of Grief: Part 4–Everybody’s Thing
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The Goodness of Grief: Part 2–Breathe Into It
While there is great suffering and pain in loss, there is this other level of suffering and pain that comes with the fear of loss. I don’t know where, if anywhere, fear fits into the classic “grief cycle”, but it seems to me to be a potent part of grief, if only we are allowed … Continue reading The Goodness of Grief: Part 2–Breathe Into It