Integrating Grief

Someone asked me how I started to integrate my grief into my life…

For me, it was quite the opposite. I started integrating life into my grief.  I made sure to look out for my grief.  Made sure it was always heard and felt and honored and being processed.  

It was when my heart caught up to what my mind knew that I started to make room for life alongside my grief.  We lose our person entirely in an instant yet rebuilding around our loss is one piece at a time, one moment at a time.  

Grief sometimes feels like we were once living in the movie, and now we are front row seat spectators of it…Watching a playback…scene by scene…bits at a time.

Take your time, love.  Give yourself compassion especially on the extra hard days.  Slowly but surely, you will find yourself