Weariness and Grief

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.  ~Kenji Miyazawa
When we think about the grief process, we all have different things to come immediately to mind.  Sadness and tears, rage, loneliness, confusion – just to name a quick few.
For me?
Utter exhaustion and overwhelming weariness.
For me, grief can seem like a giant [...]

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Grateful for Grief

I have spent a great deal of time recently reflecting on the past year and the amazing amount of healing I have experienced – healing on every level.  I keep a daily gratitude journal and I know this focus on all the beauty and blessings in my life has been a large piece of my [...]

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Thoughts on Change in Our World

This post isn’t as clearly about grief as most of my others.  However, there is much occurring now in our society, in our world, that many people are grieving.  The United States just elected a new President – one who promises to bring change.  Change and grief often go hand in hand.  These are my [...]

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Clean Grief vs. Dirty Grief

Pain is inevitable.  Suffering is optional. ~ M. Kathleen Casey
In her book, Steering by Starlight, Martha Beck talks about the difference between clean pain and dirty pain.  She describes “clean pain” as the unpleasant feeling an individual feels when something bad happens.  “Dirty pain” is described as the suffering that comes from an individual’s thoughts [...]

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Where’s the damn light?

Sometimes our grief (or our life in general) feels stuck.  Or it just feels plain overwhelming.  In times like this it is hard remember that nothing in life is ever truly stuck and difficult to trust that we will come out the other side.  This is when the light at the end of the tunnel [...]

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