GRIEF - Embrace it, don’t resent it.

My life journey has been something I would say is far more positive than negative, but I’ve had many surprises— some good, many bad. I’m going to take this week to reflect on some things that might help others— aging, losing friendships, losing family, but today it’s dealing with grief.

When it comes grief is overwhelming, a freight train of emotion that knocks you on your back and threatens to keep you down, depending on how big the hit even approaching the level of “how do I go on?”. That’s a powerful emotion.

When grief comes, allow yourself to feel it, allow the natural progression of it, allow the depression that follows, let yourself embrace the misery, but at some point you’ll have to pull yourself up and dust yourself and carry on— I know if you’re reading this while at the outset of it that sounds impossible, but trust me it will get to that point.

Grief allows us to remember. A song that reminds you of the loss at first are so painful you can’t listen to them, but at some point that same song will make you smile because that’s how we remember the loss. The deeper the grief the more the subject was loved and if they or it remains in your thoughts it’s never truly lost.

Grief will lessen, the pain will subside and the memories will become less painful.

Acceptance is going to be a theme this week.