Healing Series: Grief and Creativity
Day Six
Healing Series: Grief and Creativity
“No one gets to tell you what and how you should heal.” ~Jo Anna Dane
There was a time when I thought that if I grieved hard enough, cried long enough, and immersed myself in the pain, I would never have to grieve the loss of a loved one again. No one in my household talked about grief or any feelings that would make people uncomfortable. What did I know about how to be with grief?
Grief is still a taboo topic with an expectation of a time limit.
Grief comes in small and large moments. There is anticipatory grief when a loved one has a chronic life-threatening illness and you know their life span means an early death, you just don’t know when. There is chronic grief when a person is hit with one tragic loss after another and delayed grief when there isn’t the time or space to feel it all and feeling it all may break a person’s heart.
A pandemic, house fire, burglary, health challenge, end of a relationship are all examples of when there is grief.
Leaving a job where you care about people and moving to another job that you are excited about is a mixed bag of grief and joy. Claiming a part of yourself that has been buried or unexpressed, means you let go of another part of yourself and…
