Grief Is Love: Living with Loss

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Disenfranchised grief can occur when your loss is devalued, stigmatized, or cannot be openly mourned. Some people may minimize the loss of a job, a pet, or a friendship, for example, as something that’s not worth grieving over. You may feel stigmatized if you suffered a miscarriage or lost a loved one to suicide. It is important to listen to your body, asking yourself what you need that day. Each day will vary. Treat yourself well, and do what it takes to manage that day. Keep the faith. Grieve your heart out, allow each feeling to surface, listen to the songs, watch the films, embrace it when it's there, and enjoy the peace when it's not. Crying is therapeutic - allow yourself to fall into it when needed. This will give you the strength to pull out of it when necessary. From the first moment I believed she is worth every teardrop as each one represents a special time we had together. We were married 51 years and it means a lot of tears that I do not mind letting out. She will always be worth it as long as I remain here. Anger. Even if the loss was nobody's fault, you may feel angry and resentful. If you lost a loved one, you may be angry with yourself, God, the doctors, or even the person who died for abandoning you. You may feel the need to blame someone for the injustice that was done to you. Physical symptoms of grief

Grief Is Love: Living with Loss by Marisa Renee Lee Grief Is Love: Living with Loss by Marisa Renee Lee

Get professional help from BetterHelp’s network of 30,000 licensed therapists. Get matched and schedule your first video, phone or live chat session in as little as 48 hours. Take AssessmentWe often think of grief as a strictly emotional process, but grief often involves physical problems, including: While sharing your loss can make the burden of grief easier to carry, that doesn't mean that every time you interact with friends and family, you need to talk about your loss. Comfort can also come from just being around others who care about you. The key is not to isolate yourself. With calm, lucid prose… [a] humanizing exploration of coping with the life-changing tides of loss.”— Kirkus Learning to live with grief is a lifelong practice of self-curiosity, self-awareness, and self-acceptance. Since grief never ends, we need to become comfortable in the discomfort of it. We need to know what we are dealing with. Fact: Moving on means you've accepted your loss—but that's not the same as forgetting. You can move on with your life and keep the memory of someone or something you lost as an important part of you. In fact, as we move through life, these memories can become more and more integral to defining the people we are.

Most Moving Poems about Grief and Mourning The 21 Most Moving Poems about Grief and Mourning

You cut off the capacity for grief in your life, and you cut off the joy at the same time. They both come up through the same tunnel. You don’t have one without the other.” ― William Hurt Seek help immediately. Please read Suicide Help, talk to someone you trust, or call a suicide helpline: It’s hard to fathom how much better the world would be if every grieving person had a friend like Marisa Renee Lee… [She] shares all of the deeply compassionate wisdom grieving people need… Find Support – Directory of programs and support groups in the U.S. for children experiencing grief and loss. (National Alliance for Grieving Children)Every time we make the decision to love someone, we open ourselves to great suffering, because those we most love cause us not only great joy but also great pain. The greatest pain comes from leaving…the pain of the leaving can tear us apart. Still, if we want to avoid the suffering of leaving, we will never experience the joy of loving. And love is stronger than fear, life stronger than death, hope stronger than despair. We have to trust that the risk of loving is always worth taking.” — Henri Nouwen

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Prince lived an incredibly productive life, composing an unknown number of songs (some say around 2,000) before dying of an opioid overdose at the age of 57 in 2016. It was a life often tinged by tragedy, including the death of his son Amiir in 1996, followed by the miscarriage of another child shortly afterwards. According to Mayte Garcia, Prince’s wife and mother to both children, the marriage never recovered, as is sometimes the case for grieving parents. One such emotional state is grief. Grief may, interestingly, make the ordinarily fragmented self whole. It can, like invisible glue, hold all the pieces in place as it permeates every fiber of our being. It is as though the grieving person is “held together” by pain. Perhaps they are not stars in the sky, but rather openings where our loved ones shine down to let us know they are happy.” ― Eskimo legend I write this 4 weeks into the grief of the loss of my beloved cat Bella. I have lost human family members but none of it has come close to the grief of the loss of her. I feel I will never recover. I am deep in denial and desperately want to hold her again. The realisation that I won’t is too much to bear.

Whether it’s a close friend, spouse, partner, parent, child, or other relative, few things are as painful as losing someone you love. After such a significant loss, life may never seem quite the same again. But in time, you can ease your sorrow, start to look to the future, and eventually come to terms with your loss.