A life without grief is a life without love. And life without love is no life at all. From It’s OK That You’re Not OK. We grieve because we love. Grief is part of love. There was love in this world before your loss, there is love surrounding you now, and love will remain beside …
The thought that grief is something you live with, rather than something you recover from – move on from – are at danger of slipping back into – are not processing in a healthy way, is a comforting thought in itself. From It’s OK That You’re Not OK. We are changed by our new realities. …
Reading and reflecting is part of what I do. Reading is also something that I’ve loved doing all my life. It’s been a lot harder. And easier to avoid. I find fiction is a way back into reading. From It’s OK That You’re Not OK. I hear the same thing from just about everyone in …
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 …
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