Grief Is Love: Living with Loss

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When coping with loss, it isn't unusual to feel so desperate that you are willing to do anything to alleviate or minimize the pain. To honor your grief is not self-destructive or harmful, it is life-sustaining and life-giving, and it ultimately leads you back to love again. A window for fresh air in the middle of the storm, for a hope that comes after you've lost all hope. Or maybe you found the perfect quote for someone you know who is struggling after the death of a loved one.

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Touching poems about grief and bereavement are a great way to find the words and feelings you may have been struggling to express. Perhaps they are not stars in the sky, but rather openings where our loved ones shine down to let us know they are happy. It's not that all your other feelings are gone, just more so that you've accepted them and are ready to move on. We may want so badly to help and for the person to feel better, so we believe that nudging them to talk and process their emotions before they're truly ready will help them faster. There are less than a handful of studies looking at more than one moment in the same person across time — so looking at their grieving trajectory.

You can’t grind away on grief in a solid way and say, ‘I’m going to work on this until it’s over’ because it will be with you for the rest of your life, whatever you do.

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Rather than avoiding them, draw friends and loved ones close, spend time together face to face, and accept the assistance that's offered. In this final stage of the grieving process, you begin to accept the loss and feel hope for what tomorrow might bring. Importantly, we ought to recognize that the grieving person may be temporarily lost to the rest of us, much as the deceased is lost to them.May you walk gently through the world, keeping your loved one with you always, knowing that you are never parted in the beating of your heart. Knowing that our hearts will be broken and we will go through times when we feel empty, alone, and lonely, we still chose to partner and to love; to invest our hearts and minds and time and bodies with another. When it doesn’t—and it keeps you from resuming your daily life and relationships—it may be a sign of complicated grief. She was also a fashion icon, book editor, mum, and no stranger to feelings of overwhelming grief and sadness. For TLC straight to your inbox + life-affirming words I don't share anywhere else, just say the word.