Healing Grief, Finding Peace Quotes

“Does the grief you are experiencing seem unreal? Are you expecting your loved one at any minute to come walking through the door? Do you feel that your life has come to an end without him or her? Are you at a bottomless abyss, feeling out of control? Have you lost trust in your ability to continue on? These feelings and more are not unusual for many mourners. They are common characteristics of the sudden confrontation with change after the death of a loved one. You seem to be losing your sanity; it just doesn’t make sense. All of this is compounded by a series of obstacles: sudden feelings of abandonment, inability to find a good listener, lack of confidence to deal with the future, and lack of reliable information to help ease the searing pain of loss. There”
― Louis E. Lagrand, Healing Grief, Finding Peace: Daily Strategies for Grieving and Growing

“Your identity is altered, even though you don’t want it to be. You are not the same person, and some of your friends will relate to you differently. Redefining ourselves, that is, building a new identity after the death of a loved one, is another significant task commonly forgotten in grief work. It’s okay to be a different person than when you started your journey through loss. So ask yourself how much your great loss has affected your identity as a person and how you will rebuild it.”
― Louis E. Lagrand, Healing Grief, Finding Peace: Daily Strategies for Grieving and Growing

“If you dwell on the past, you will have no future, but if you dwell on the future, you will have the past.”
― Louis E. LaGrand, Healing Grief, Finding Peace: Daily Strategies for Grieving and Growing

“Everything can be taken away from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”
― Louis E. LaGrand, Healing Grief, Finding Peace: Daily Strategies for Grieving and Growing