Grief and emotional survival

 

Here I am learning about limits. I am learning about grief. I am learning about emotional survival. Here I cling on, feeling far out of reach, on a vicious distant edge, that few, if any, care to know about.

There is no one to comfort or guide you.

Suffering reeks of despair. It feels endless and hopeless. It is painful beyond description. 

Yet there is a pathway you must keep finding through it, in order to find meaning and restore hope. Otherwise the suffering will consume you - initially, if not long term - unless you can find a way to see all, including loss and grief, as a path and somehow find crucial self-support .

Then you can find that it is possible to face your situation with dignity, you can find meaning and purpose, even in the most awful, indescribable circumstances and desolation even. 

(Adapted from "More Notes For Carers" https://stonebird.co.uk/morenotes/index.html)

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