Perhaps one of the truest, most accurate articles that I have read regarding loss and the grief attached to it: 5 Lies You Were Told About Grief. With several wonderful Anne Lamott quotes, and much wisdom from the article's author, Alison Nappi, this one truly resounded with the heartbreak that I experienced when my mother was murdered on January 10, 1993. The following years of trying to pick myself back up; only to fall, over and over and the anguish of being met with constant beratement from my father which led to deeper despair, isolation and pain...
"The truth is there are losses you never get over. They break you to pieces and
you can never go back to the original shape you once were, and so you will
grieve your own death with that of your beloved lost."
"In many ways you are restarting your life from scratch, especially if your
beloved lost was the central pin you’d built your life around. For many of us,
there is no life to get on with; the lives we were living are irretrievable."
But enough of that. Read the article.
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