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    • Home
    • Welcome
    • Hope
    • Surviving
    • Grief's Companions
    • Grief's Co-conspirators
    • Grief and Spirit
    • Grief and Language
    • Loss Due to Suicide
    • Resilience and Legacy
    • Tribute and Poems
    • References
    • Playlist
  • Home
  • Welcome
  • Hope
  • Surviving
  • Grief's Companions
  • Grief's Co-conspirators
  • Grief and Spirit
  • Grief and Language
  • Loss Due to Suicide
  • Resilience and Legacy
  • Tribute and Poems
  • References
  • Playlist

Surviving Grief

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Making Sense of Grief & Growing Through Grief

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Part of your life journey

Dedication and Tribute

This site is dedicated to my husband.

And this site is dedicated to You, fellow traveler in life.

And this site is dedicated to You, fellow traveler in life.

You were my Love, my best friend, my everything. 

Please know that you were loved by so many people.  Deeply missed and forever in our hearts. 


We have now lost each other in the evening trees... please wait for me...







And this site is dedicated to You, fellow traveler in life.

And this site is dedicated to You, fellow traveler in life.

And this site is dedicated to You, fellow traveler in life.

You.  Who are experiencing Grief.

You.  Who are supporting someone through Grief.

You.  Wading into learning about Grief, this deepest of human emotions.


Grief - an inescapable facet of humanity. 

Inescapable but not defeating.




Dedicated to the human experience of Grief.

And this site is dedicated to You, fellow traveler in life.

Dedicated to the human experience of Grief.

While my voice and lived experienced are expressed in this space, the prose are written with all in mind.  


All who have experienced raw grief or deeply buried grief.  Personal hurts that spring up on our life paths.  


About.....

What is this site about?

Grief - the human experience that everyone eventually goes through. 

Grief is messy - it doesn’t follow a neat chronological order of well defined steps. Grief is painful, gut wrenching. It can consume us. 


This site tackles Grief. And while giving the reader this sense of Grief's messiness, this site also gives words for reflection, for hope. And like a Phoenix, allows for a chance at rebirth, from a burning pile of ashes, into new strength and wisdom.    

How did this writing about Grief start & grow?

I have just survived horrific Grief. My dear husband committed suicide last year and forever changed my life. And at some point early in my Grief journey I was compelled to write. But unlike creating a thesis, academic paper, magazine essay (all of which I have written)....with their limiting parameters....the writing on this site is a collection of words poured from the guts without thought to subsequent publication or academic critique. The words are raw, unedited symbols of a human experience in all its fresh bloodied pain, and written in a state of deep fresh hurting. A terrifying free fall. Written during the time of the experience and not in retrospect. The words are borne of a purposeful forced look into the burning flames of Grief to say..."ok, this is hell...but let's write it down". ...and maybe, just maybe it will be of console or enlightenment to someone, somewhere, someday.     B  2018



My Playlist

Mumford & Sons. (2012).

Ghosts That We Knew.

Babel. (Album).

Why is this site important?

As a society we need to understand Grief better. Much better. Yes, there are books on grief phases, grief consequences, grief and depression (as examples) - but Grief has so many more facets undiscovered. On my Grief journey I have been at times shocked at what I’ve experienced. I've been equally dismayed with the gaps in literature addressing Grief co-conspirators - those other emotions and feelings that sneak up and accompany Grief.  Simultaneously, my friends & family have at times grappled to know how best to support me.


 And yet - Grief happens to everyone - at some point. No one gets through this life untouched. This site will hopefully help you to explore the concept of Grief from another perspective and to reflect on Grief-survival in your life journey and that of your loved ones' journeys. 


In learning about Grief and helping others through Grief,... I leave you with these words:  


"Human potential is the same for all. You're feeling, I have no value, is wrong. Absolutely wrong. You are deceiving yourself. We all have the power of thought - so what are you lacking? If you have willpower, then you can change anything. It is usually said that you are your own master."  Dalai Lama

Guiding Lights

Thank you

To the many family and friends who surrounded me and shone their beautiful light, during my long dark days of Grief.  I am forever grateful. 


May all who suffer loss and Grief, find a strong shoulder to lean on...until the day (and that day will come) where you find your feet again, take up your path and continue on your life journey.     

Compassion

For those family, friends and colleagues of those who are in deep Grief -

Compassion is when we  stand in awe of what someone has to deal with instead of judgement of how they carry it . Please internalize, that the person hit with a horrible tragedy (at the front lines of that tragedy) is trying to survive each day. That person is unable to layer the painful burden of judgement on top of deep painful Grief. Judgement can mean the difference between that person's survival or that person's failure to move back into the light of life.   

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