Grief Is Love: Living with Loss

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Remember, the intensity of grief does not last forever. The love you have for your loved one will. Holding onto grief is not holding on to love - survivors' guilt is a thing! Eventually, you will learn to live around the grief, influenced by the legacy and love of your beloved. Grief Is Love is the rare project that reshapes all of our sensory expectations of catastrophe. In this particular season, I'm not sure I could have chosen a more useful and dynamic literary companion. This book will bolster faith in our community of grievers and help us accept communal care and love." The pain at a significant loss may never completely disappear, but it should ease up over time. When it doesn’t—and it keeps you from resuming your daily life and relationships—it may be a sign of complicated grief. Love is an engraved invitation to Grief.” — Sunshine O’Donnell 2. When in the dark, open a window. Let the moon speak. It is a very hard year. Losing my husband to GBM Brain Cancer on April 1st. Compounded by COVID and my family all restricted on traveling to the US from Canada… Trying to stay sane for my 7 year old. (Whom turned 7 on April 2nd…and is the adopted grandson of my husband…he already lost one set of parents in his short life and now his daddy.)

Grief Is Love: Living with Loss by Marisa Renee Lee Grief Is Love: Living with Loss by Marisa Renee Lee

For TLC straight to your inbox + life-affirming words I don't share anywhere else, just say the word. Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.” ― Mark TwainWe hope these poems about grief have helped you find some comfort amongst the pain or allowed you to reach out to someone else bereaved. If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart. I’ll stay there forever.” ― A.A. Milne Grief is no more necessary when we understand death than fear is necessary when we understand flying.” – Richard Bach

The Love We Only Find In Loss - Whats your Grief The Love We Only Find In Loss - Whats your Grief

The melody that the loved one played upon the piano of your life will never be played quite that way again, but we must not close the keyboard and allow the instrument to gather dust. We must seek out other artists of the spirit, new friends who gradually will help us to find the road to life again, who will walk the road with us.” ― Joshua Loth Liebman The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven? And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives? When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.” ― Kahlil Gibran Accepting the finality of a loss can make us feel powerless, but it's an essential aspect of grieving. It may continue to permeate long after our loved one has passed but, with time, strength, comfort, and compassion we can work through that loss, eventually meeting acceptance, and finally meeting hope. Hope for the future.With calm, lucid prose… [a] humanizing exploration of coping with the life-changing tides of loss.”— Kirkus Anger. Even if the loss was nobody's fault, you may feel angry and resentful. If you lost a loved one, you may be angry with yourself, God, the doctors, or even the person who died for abandoning you. You may feel the need to blame someone for the injustice that was done to you. Physical symptoms of grief Every time we make the decision to love someone, we open ourselves to great suffering, because those we most love cause us not only great joy but also great pain. The greatest pain comes from leaving…the pain of the leaving can tear us apart. Still, if we want to avoid the suffering of leaving, we will never experience the joy of loving. And love is stronger than fear, life stronger than death, hope stronger than despair. We have to trust that the risk of loving is always worth taking.” — Henri Nouwen We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little while, and then our bearers in their turn drop, and so on into the unimaginable generations.” ― John Banville Grief can manifest as different symptoms in the body. Following a loss, you might experience increased fatigue, issues with sleep, or changes in appetite or energy level. I have noticed my body feeling heavy, as if it were made of lead.