My insight on grief

My heart hurts for my friends experiencing deep loss recently....

Grief is the worst feeling to experience in life. Everyone experiences it at some point. Some experience more grief in their lives than others. The loss of a parent, a sibling, a friend, a student, a mentor, and even a pet is too much for the heart to bare alone. I believe the death of a child is a life long grief worse than anyone should ever bare. I can only hold and pray for those going through it at the moment. 

Grief brings you to your core, to your knees and gut wrenching heartache. You feel like you can’t breathe. You don’t want to wake up. You are stuck in a moment of time you can’t get out 

of. Grief: you are sucker punched over and over every time you try to wake up from a nightmare.

When you experience grief you become a different person. You reinvent yourself. You can never be the person you were before the hole in your heart was left.

Grief knocks you down some days. You can’t get out of bed. You want to sleep and dream of a life that once was. You just can’t face reality some days. That’s okay! Be gentle with yourself and know life goes on... even if you don’t want it too. It will go on and you will get stronger. You will get up. You will stand tall. Your heart will build scar tissue so it doesn’t feel like it’s raw and bleeding every single minute of the day. You get tougher. You see beauty in new lenses. You forgive easier. You don’t judge because life is hard enough. You LOVE fully. You understand life is fragile and short. Grief is the 

worst feeling to experience. BUT it gives you insight on how to LIVE fully knowing tomorrow isn’t promised.

I'm here for you my friends. Grief is hard, but you are not alone. xoxo