I want this daring to slow down amidst chaos... to reach for one another to say, “Hello, I am here, I don’t have the answer, but I will stand with you.”
To grieve for yourself, and to acknowledge with love and compassion all that you have survived, is the third portal of grace and freedom offered by grief.
Each time I remember the fervent wish to turn back time so the person I'd lost would still be with me, but I don't remember allowing myself to really grieve.
I became a mother and lost all sense of self and lost friends. I allowed others to tell me who I am. We have to let that stuff go, it has to be shared so that it can be released with love. I have to constantly remind myself that my body belongs to me, that I am safe, that I am beautiful, that I ...