River: Some quotes about grieving

[mdlbear]

The grief support website Whats your Grief has a lot of good stuff on it, especially if you're a member of that exclusive club that nobody wants to join. Today's blog post there had a couple of good quotes on it:

[G]rief is not something we need to heal from. Rather, grief IS the healing.

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On a triggering birthday or anniversary years on, when my grief sidles up beside me and brings on a cascade of tears, I am not surprised or scared. I don’t fear that I failed to ‘recover’ or ‘heal’ properly. Quite the opposite. I am grateful that I can still welcome grief in. We can share old memories and revisit the life I once believed I’d live, while still appreciating the life I am living. I am happy to let grief put her arm around me, to bury my face in her shoulder as I cry, knowing that together we will always be healing.