Sunday, May 1, 2022

Articles Worth Reading: 64 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me About Grief

Over on the website What's Your Grief, Litsa Williams wrote an excellent article: 64 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me About Grief.  Some of these have been especially relevant to me in recent months, including:

5. A hospital death is not always a bad death.

6. A home death/hospice death is not always a good death.

17. There is no timeline for grieving.  You can’t rush it.  You will grieve, in some form, forever.

18. “There will always be regrets.  No matter how much time you had, you’ll always want more”.

25. Grief can make you question your life, your purpose, and your goals.  And that isn’t always a bad thing.

49. “Just because you feel pretty good one day it doesn’t mean you are cured of your grief”.

58. “You don’t get over it, you just get used to it”.

63. You will never go back to being your “old self”.  Grief changes you and you are never the same.

The whole list is definitely worth a read.  Maybe there are others that apply to your own situation, dear reader, as you struggle with grief and loss.

 


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