30/08/2024
Today, August 30th, is National Grief Awareness Day…
Why do I write so much about grief?
Because, like love, grief is the one thing we will all know in this life.
We will all grieve, we probably are all grieving in some way, right now. We all know grief, we will all cause grief.
To love is to grieve. To live is to lose.
And yet there is still stigma and silence around those ‘stuck’ in their new world of grief.
We usher and rush them along to join back in with the rat-race of life.
But they do not need reminders of their struggling, they already know.
They need to hear others talking about grief, see others sharing their stories and feel safe to grieve wherever they are.
They need more light on the darkest areas of this life, we all do.
To love is to grieve, to live is to lose, so let’s stop whispering and shunning those in pain and start asking the questions and mentioning lost loved ones names without ‘fear’ of the reaction.
They can’t hurt more. That is already happening.
But they can hurt less, and time is not the sole healer we think it to be.
Time creates a capacity to process and accept yes… but it’s the talking that heals, the sharing that strengthens and the ‘using love as the lead’, that lets joy come back on in…
No one has the answers but acceptance helps. Love and understanding helps even more.
Each grief is as unique as the fingerprint of the person. And that’s really truly beautiful, if you stop to think.
This piece is from Growing Brave
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