It's OK That You're Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn't Understand

by Megan Devine

“We’re not here to fix our pain, but to tend to it.”

“Real safety is in entering each other’s pain,

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”

“It doesn’t matter what choice you make; it matters that the choice be what is most true for you, based on who you know yourself to be.”

“The human soul doesn’t want to be advised or fixed or saved. It simply wants to be witnessed—to be seen, heard, and companioned exactly as it is.