There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief … And unspeakable love …
Washington Irving
After the death of a beloved, there is no avoiding the overwhelming grief or the tears. In the immediate aftermath, we may be in shock, feel numb or even be in denial about the loss. Although everyone’s timetable is different, eventually we have to acknowledge the loss and how devastated we are. No matter how painful, we must sit with our grief and all that we’ve lost in order to start healing.
At Salt Water, we can help you learn to live with an unbearable loss. We offer ideas, strategies, tools and most importantly, hope that you can survive the death of someone you didn’t think you could live without.
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The Enormity Of The Room
I know it may sound greedy to want more days with a person who lived so long, but the fact that my mother was 92 does not diminish, it only magnifies, the enormity of the room whose door has now quietly shut. Stephen Colbert
Context is Everything
There are losses that rearrange the world. Deaths that change the way you see everything, grief that tears everything down. Megan Devine
Sonder
The realization that each random passerby is the main character of their own story, living a life just as vivid and complex as your own, while you are just an extra in the background. John Koenig, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
The Home That Made Me
We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place. We stay there, even though we go away, and there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there. Pascal Mercier
Mothering Me Still
In the end, this may be why certain losses are so shocking, not because they defy reality, but because they reveal it. Kathryn Schulz
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