The anger I used to feel has gone now, replaced by something calmer, something with more clarity: acceptance. I no longer feel I’m running, scared and lost, through the maze of my grief. I’m still walking through it, but now I feel I have a map to show me where I’ve been. I understand that I will be able to get out when the time is right. When I’m ready. But I know, too, I have to go through it. There’s no way round or over, no way to take shortcuts or avoid the path I have to walk. Like a butterfly in a chrysalis, the struggle through my grief is a necessary part of being able to escape and
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