Paris is Always a Good Idea

by Jenn McKinlay

This was the beauty of Paris. When something didn’t go as expected, there was always something else to see, do, taste, or feel.

“Chelsea, you’re trying so hard to be who you were before your mother died,” he said. “But you can’t be her. That woman died with your mom.”

We understand that pieces of our hearts will always belong to those who are gone. For us, love and loss are forever entwined, making us love more cautiously but also more deeply,” he said.

The truth is you’ve been hanging on to your grief as if it’s the last part of your mother that you can hold on to, and you can’t move forward, because you’re afraid if you let it go, you’ll lose her forever.”