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“grieving is how we experience the process of a very, very deep part of our psyches becoming familiar with a painful truth” it is a part of our psyche syncing up on itself it may not like this world very much and yet it remains so h/t @Morphenius https://t.co/c6rggZFc3Y https://t.co/Uxco48lCLO
grieving lets one’s parts know it is time to move on yet as @Malcolm_Ocean knows as I and many cultures know funerals do not have to be all serious solemn, yes, but never serious https://t.co/j39m7GpUWl
grief allows you to change patterns the other options (imploding into numbness / erupting into anger) don’t allow changing of patterns “simply becoming upset about change” https://t.co/HnXQ2dNwl7 https://t.co/2AVmsoReRa
“Grief is the ultimate marinade. You become more of whatever you were already: the lonely, lonelier; the angry, angrier; the restless, more restless. Sometimes the faithful manage to emerge more faithful. It’s hard to describe the infinite loop of loss.—
The closest sensation might be hunger, if eyes and ears and fingertips could be hungry.” ― Liz Hauck, Home Made: A Story of Grief, Groceries, Showing Up--and What We Make When We Make Dinner https://t.co/uR2XO8aldm
“Grief is reconciliation to a world that differs from the story we have clung to. The bigger the story, the bigger the grief.” https://t.co/ntI37OkJsW https://t.co/A160WoiHDU
grief vs trauma https://t.co/QVMRFnJLwY
