Dr. Joanne Cacciatore
The only way to stop feeling grief is to stop feeling.
Right in the center of our very wise hearts is the realization that we feel extraordinary grief because of extraordinary love. If we can become still enough, if we can listen to our hearts, it knows that grief is not the enemy.
Some will say to choose happiness instead of grief. But happiness and grief are not competitors. That is a myth perpetrated by a culture that is foolishly obsessed with pursuing one and dangerously avoiding the other.
This is mine, and you have no right to take it!
And no matter what, no one and nothing can take from us what is ours, once we trust it.
🔗 https://www.centerforlossandtrauma.com/single-post/2018/01/20/An-Open-Letter-to-Bereaved-Parents-and-Others