RT @afrosypaella: Just a reminder that if you are a parent, your children should not be your safe space. Enlisting your children to be your….

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RT @afrosypaella: Missing my Mom this morning and somehow in cleaning I stumbled across several funeral programs for my family in Alabama?….

A bit of comfort goes a long way.

RT @Grief_In_Haiku: @Learnaboutgrief The first new year without my mother was the hardest because it was the first one in my lifetime that….

One emotion doesn't cancel out another. The human mind and body are equipped to tenderly hold both.

RT @RichardLBelford: This makes grief one of society’s most misunderstood and profoundly difficult experiences that cannot be resolved by c….

Meeting people where they are is such a beautiful way to express that you see them, accept them, and care.

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People run away from emotions that feel uncomfortable, heavy, or scary. When they witnesses someone else in pain, it can be an unwelcome reminder of the hurt they're trying to surpress. Sometimes, avoiding you feels like protecting them from facing themselves.

The part of grief that often goes overlooked is how we often lose connection with ourselves after trauma, hardship, and loss.

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Grief pulls us in many directions.

The grief myth we are told is that the longer they are dead, the less we miss them. It seems that the reality is that we find ways to appreciate them more. We find certain jokes funnier, lessons they taught more meaningful, and the absence that much harder.

RT @joyfulng: @Learnaboutgrief

I am only realizing now that #grieftwitter is a thing lol do you use it?.

Feeling less safe after loss?. It's not an illusion. Grief is a life disruptor and tears away the stable world we knew. This unfortunately makes us susceptible to feeling less safe with ourselves, others, and the environments we move through.

Eulogizing a living person caries the pain of knowing their alive to the world but "dead" in every way you once saw life.

When we eulogize a living person, we are forced to give up a certain hope of their return, similar to a death. And even if they do come back, it won't be how it once was. We grieve the future we thought we had and all that came with them.

We know how to give a eulogy for a dead person, yet eulogizing a living person can feel equally hard. We grieve the death of a marriage ending in divorce, a friendship that turned sour, a family member who's become estranged. We grieve breakups and the dreams we had together.