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Unless we take the time to grieve and mourn the things and people, we lose, we will be living from numbness and suppression. And just like a volcano, unhealed grief comes back out of no way to remind us of the hidden pain we are not giving attention to. Heal so that the pain grows you rather than take you down a rabbit hole.
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― Mourning Love: It is time to let go of that pain you have been carrying around for so long...
― Mourning Love: It is time to let go of that pain you have been carrying around for so long...
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One card read simply, “ God Bless Your Family,” in the painstaking and shaky handwriting of a very elderly person, and I marveled at the enormous and possibly painful effort a stranger across the country had made—to get the card and the stamp, to write the note, to mail it—just so I would not feel so alone. These were people with an emotional bandwidth, a depth and breadth of understanding, that had come from pain in their own lives.
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