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synchronicity & grief
It’s the sort of thing that’s shared surreptitiously. Carefully. With disclaimers and explanations and vows that we don’t actually believe in signs, because we are not that “flaky.”
No one wants to be seen as flaky.
But the reality is, almost everyone has a story of something precise and random happening in their grief that let them know there is something going on here: the well-timed song, the a Read more of this blog post »
No one wants to be seen as flaky.
But the reality is, almost everyone has a story of something precise and random happening in their grief that let them know there is something going on here: the well-timed song, the a Read more of this blog post »
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“The reality of grief is far different from what others see from the outside. There is pain in this world that you can't be cheered out of. You don't need solutions. You don't need to move on from your grief. You need someone to see your grief, to acknowledge it. You need someone to hold your hands while you stand there in blinking horror, staring at the hole that was your life. Some things cannot be fixed. They can only be carried.”
― It's OK That You're Not OK
― It's OK That You're Not OK
“Some things cannot be fixed; they can only be carried. Grief like yours, love like yours, can only be carried.
Survival in grief, even eventually building a new life alongside grief, comes with the willingness to bear witness, both to yourself and to the others who find themselves inside this life they didn’t see coming. Together, we create real hope for ourselves,
and for one another. We need each other to survive.
I wish this for you: to find the people you belong with, the ones who will see your pain, companion you, hold you close,
even as the heavy lifting of grief is yours alone. As hard as they may seem to find at times, your community is out there. Look
for them. Collect them. Knit them into a vast flotilla of light that can hold you.”
― It's OK That You're Not OK
Survival in grief, even eventually building a new life alongside grief, comes with the willingness to bear witness, both to yourself and to the others who find themselves inside this life they didn’t see coming. Together, we create real hope for ourselves,
and for one another. We need each other to survive.
I wish this for you: to find the people you belong with, the ones who will see your pain, companion you, hold you close,
even as the heavy lifting of grief is yours alone. As hard as they may seem to find at times, your community is out there. Look
for them. Collect them. Knit them into a vast flotilla of light that can hold you.”
― It's OK That You're Not OK
“When you try to take someone's pain away from them, you don't make it better. You just tell them it's not OK to talk about their pain.”
― It's OK That You're Not OK
― It's OK That You're Not OK
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“Every loss is valid. And every loss is not the same. You can't flatten the landscape of grief and say that everything is equal. It isn't.”
― It's OK That You're Not OK
― It's OK That You're Not OK
“True comfort in grief is in acknowledging the pain, not in trying to make it go away. Companionship, not correction, is the way forward.”
― It's OK That You're Not OK
― It's OK That You're Not OK
“The reality of grief is far different from what others see from the outside. There is pain in this world that you can't be cheered out of. You don't need solutions. You don't need to move on from your grief. You need someone to see your grief, to acknowledge it. You need someone to hold your hands while you stand there in blinking horror, staring at the hole that was your life. Some things cannot be fixed. They can only be carried.”
― It's OK That You're Not OK
― It's OK That You're Not OK
