healing
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Early on in this mess, I felt like I was a total mess. My emotions and my grief took over constantly. At the hospital I crawled into Tom’s bed sobbing. Such a vulnerable side of myself that before this I would have kept hidden. Tom was my safe place. I know I was his too.…
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Heart break, of course, goes hand-in-hand with loss. I joined an online yoga for grief support class, and one week focused on the heart. We were invited to consider the difference between a heart that breaks apart and a heart that breaks wide open. A heart that breaks open feels emotions intensely, offers room for…
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A few weeks ago I spent a few days in a row trying to decide if I had caught the flu or if this was just the ongoing stress of grief flaring up and making me nauseous and achey. Pretty sure it was in fact, just the grief. Now I’m back at it again. My…
A Smiling Young Widow 