I simply accepted the idea of the stages of grief. Megan Devine points out that the human tendency toward pragmatic systemisation as a method of control takes what began as an interesting set of observations that sought to support people and turns them into a rigid methodology into which every person and every circumstance are …
I’ve had books in my Amazon queue or sitting around that I haven’t got around to reading. It’s OK That You’re Not OK is by Megan Devine. Presently it feels as if, to use a phrase from Devine’s book, that loss is becoming integrated – life is lived with loss alongside, not overcome, not somewhere …
I conducted funerals during the COVID restrictions. We had a family funeral during the later stages of COVID restrictions. One of the most draining parts of a wretched two weeks was curating a list of 125 names that were coming to the funeral, which had to be provided to the funeral directors. Of all the …
There’s a lot of silence in times of grief. We lack words to express what we feel. We lack the capacity to bear what the grieving express. I think living with grief gives a context in which a language to express feeling, and an ability to hear what the grieving say, can develop. If we …
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