Bouncing Back From Grief
Bouncing Back From Grief We are often expected to bounce back from grief. Our nearest and dearest can be impatient with what they perceive as our lingering. Pressuring us to move on almost always creates a niggle of wrong doing inside of us. Nobody is pressuring me to move on but then I am not talking about it every day so it really has little impact on anybody else. In my grief over the loss of my dog I’ve connected with a deeper older grief that I have not set free. And that older grief scratched the surface of an even older grief. It seems like the deeper I dig, the more I dig up. Because I cannot remember the source of my older grief all I can face is a nagging feeling. I did not used to know that much of what I was experiencing was grief, because I did not know to identify the feeling with that name. One old grief that thrust itself forward was coming home from school one day to find the giant teddy bear that ...