Grateful, Thankful, and Healing!
This Journey through the Wilderness of Grief and Beyond to New Life
Grateful for family Today I woke up late at 9:15am. Although it was daylight, I woke up to darkness in my head. Familiar grief raised its head, said hello, then the phone dinged… Sarah texted, “Do you think you are coming over today?” She had no idea that I woke up to darkness — wanted…
Well hello little badass calendar! Finally some good advice! Except for grief and mourning… that’s a whole different monster that must be felt. Every dark, messy, screaming, heart breaking in a million pieces, in-your-face moment. Only then can one let go and focus in on living life again like a badass! XO Lisa BadassBadasserygrief
The picture above hit me like a ton of ROCKS. It perfectly conveys the sheer weight of grief. Tom Zuba defines grief thusly: “An automatic internal learned response to the end of a dream.” Tom goes on to say “In order to heal, you must mourn… Healing gives meaning and purpose to all you’ve lived…
Today is one of those days and I have been on the struggle bus all day. However, I have committed to writing three things that I’m grateful for every day. So here goes: I am grateful that I can admit that I am on the struggle bus. Before that might not have happened because my…
“Imagination, therefore, is nothing but decaying sense…” — Hobbes “I felt a strange delight in causing my decay.” — Robert Browning, Pauline: A Fragment of a confession Allow me to share a story about potatoes… the ones I bought two months ago. They were sitting on top of the microwave oven in the bag from…
Lawrence, my Love: “I remember when your name was just another name that rolled without thought off my tongue. Now, I can’t look at your name without an abundance of sentiment attached to each letter. Your name, which I played with so carelessly, so easily, has somehow become sacred to my lips. A name I…
Today I am grateful for: Letters received in the mail that bring happy tears. I haven’t cried happy tears in so long that it took a few breaths to recognize them as coming from a place of happiness, rather than sadness. I have been one breath away from tears for several weeks now. Especially with…
