Say Hello To Grief
And I welcome you to say hello to grief because it's another way that we can acknowledge it's a part of our identity that we're bereaved, that we've experienced a big loss. We experienced a loss and change that we did not want. And essentially, that's what grief is. And a lot of people can relate to that. So I hope you take the time to simply say hello. Say hello to grief. Say hello to someone else
Tanya Coles
@MsColes77 · 4:04
And you would think ten years after the fact, it would get easier. It doesn't get easier. It's just that life moves on. And when you move on with life, you just start to move on because it's not so fresh anymore and it's not so new anymore. You heal through it, but but I think there's a part of you that will never fully heal from something like that
And I think that's beautiful because brings up so many topics of just to know that grief is more than just the death of a person. Like I had said before in the previous mini pod that I posted is it really is the loss of or experiencing a loss or change that you did not want. And thank you so much for sharing that because literally, figuratively, you did lose a piece of you and even losing the idea of something
Andrea Potvin
@GoodEnough · 3:15
I really think it was so encouraging and to kind of sum it all up, that to experience great grief, you've had to have great love, intense feelings of love, and that we can take that grief and ride its ups and downs and still find love. So again, I do appreciate this. I can't wait to hear more content and share more stories or more experiences as time goes on. Thanks so much. Bye
J.L. Beasley
@Her_Sisu · 4:51
The person who has you figured out, that knows you without the use of words, and you guys can have this telepathic conversation, so to speak, they're gone. And you're left with grief. And it comes up. I say, man, grief is actually a comedian and gnarly, a gnarly comedian because grief can show up in the randomest of ways. My father died July of 2016, and he died one month before retirement
And it's only us having this internal dialogue to where I feel like we can sometimes hold in those tears. But I am an advocate for letting it out. And it took me a while, I think, when my sister first died, and this is very common, is I didn't cry, and I kept waiting and waiting and waiting. It actually wasn't until I heard a podcast and I was alone in my room or I waited until I got alone in my room
But even as you're talking about the point that you made where when we experience grief, that it really is about having these connections to these people or things, again, in this case, a person, and just understanding that there may be days that I can talk about it, and there may be days when I can't. And that is quite interesting for me
Annalyzed Perspectives
@AnnaT · 4:34
And what has taken me a long time to understand is that this grieving is everlasting but how I operationalize and the grief and just flow with me for a second. So I miss my mom more than words could ever possibly express and in that missing her often coles paralyzing moments of sadness but also a flood of memories. And I go back to those moments and I dwell in those moments and I live in those moments and I smile
And also seeing that post traumatic growth is something to be grateful for. And I'm just really grateful in this moment how people have been responding, even how you've been take, how you took the time to respond as well. So let's keep the conversation going. And if you are looking to learn more, you can find me on Instagram at hello, I'm Grieving and also on my website@www.hellomgrieving.com. So looking forward to publishing more episodes. Thank you
Tracy Hansen
@momma2bubbas · 4:53
So this has been an amazing, crazy, scary few months of growth for me, and my heart breaks into a trillion pieces when I think about my boys and the fact that that their dad is no longer here and that they need a dad. I want them to have a dad. So I'm still grappling with that. But thank you for your topic, and I look forward to talking more about it
I wanted to commend you for sharing your story so open and so vulnerable and giving us a true insight at what it is like to experience loss when it is death by suicide and how that can impact people and how that can impact family and how that can impact children. And you have so many layers to your stories and that's something that's really big with grief is a lot of times we think, okay, someone died and that's the end of the story