The Gifts of Grief...

The gifts of grief never really get talked about.

I think it’s because the pain of the loss is so great and while we are going through it, our attention is focused on coping.

But have you ever stopped and thought about what grief taught you or what it opened you up to?

In my own personal experience I have found that grief cracked my heart wide open.

It taught me to love even when my heart was aching.

It taught me to feel deeper than I have ever done before.

It allowed me to see support that I never knew I had.

It opened my eyes to unconditional love.

It helped me to be real, especially when it decided to show up in the middle of the supermarket!

It allowed me to feel the true strength of vulnerability and the power of allowing emotions to flow whenever and wherever they decided to show up.

It taught me to live my life with no regrets.

It put everything into perspective and allowed me to see the things I really cared about and what was important to me.

It helped me to understand the depths of pain and how to relate to others going through the same thing.

It softened me in a way that gave strength that I never knew I had.

It broke down walls and barriers, it helped me to heal, it allowed me to see my own pain, pain I had forgotten about.

It showed me that we can explore the depths of all our deeper more challenging emotions and keep getting back up again.

We don’t break from doing this, we break from not doing this!

It made me curious about our life beyond this physical existence and opened my eyes to spirituality, confirming so many beliefs that I had from a very young age.

NOTHING else could have taught me this.

Grief impacts us all so differently, but I have never had a client that couldn’t answer this question, no matter how great the loss has been, no matter how much pain they have been in, no matter how deeply they are still moving their way through this intense yet powerful emotion.

This tells me that grief, like many things is very misunderstood.

Have you ever stopped and thought about what gifts grief has given you?

Lisa x