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Where does grief end and life begin when someone you love dies? The harsh, but true answer is that grief never ends and life begins when you accept that living doesn’t begin when the pain ends. Living happens when you come to peace with the fact that life after the death of your person requires always sharing the joy WITH the sorrow. It is easy to look at someone who is trying to grasp onto the light after someone they love dies and think “they are good now,” or “they are over it now.” But there is so much that people cannot see when someone is trying to rebuild a life after a loss. People don’t realize that behind a smile or a laugh is always a gut punch that our person isn’t here to experience a beautiful moment with us. Grief can be isolating because so often the external doesn’t match what is happening on the inside because life must go on when our person dies. We must function and adapt somehow. Life buzzes on around us when it feels like our world has stopped and that can be the most jarring and devastating experience of them all. But as humans, we are incredibly resilient. We can bear so much pain and still manage to move mountains, show up for the people that need us, and create beauty, meaning and purpose from the ashes of great anguish and loss. My person, my husband, Ryan, would be so proud of us. We still carry a forever pain, but we are living. YOUR person would be so proud of how far you’ve come too. Just keep going. . . . . . DM me