To heal pain you must step up to it, you must examine it, you must find its deepest truth. This will hurt…a lot! We must step into our own internal fire of Armageddon where all things are revealed. About them, about us. And then we must express it, re-interpret it, understand it, accept it, and then own…
Grace was eighty-four. On Monday morning she didn’t want to get out of bed. This was unusual for Grace. She said nothing was wrong…she just didn’t feel like it. I had this feeling. I’ve learnt over the years in my work to trust my feeling even though sometimes the outward facts don’t support it. In…
My friend Pat has written for some time now about her journey of grief following the death of her life partner. Her latest post on this topic; http://ptbertram.wordpress.com/2011/09/30/grief-is-not-self-indulgent/ talks again of how non-grievers react to grievers. Please pop over there and read her post as it will provide the context for my post. Go on…do it…
Simon will be buried today. His body at least. And the grief of his children will know no bounds. What is this death, this silence, this black hole Why must there be another side What is this curse that means those who love us have their hearts ripped out because we die And curse you…
I am in grief. It feels doubly so. For this death…its violence, leaves the heart screaming…It shouldn’t have been this way. And now I sit barely able to breathe as I ponder the roads ahead. Terrified to numbness, at how the potentials may play out. Choices his dear ones may make…with their minds overcome by…
Leesis Ponders 