Saturday's Sayings - What is Grief? - Part One ~written by Debra Carter and many grieving mothers...

Saturday's Sayings

What is Grief?

Part One

~written by grieving mother, 

Debra Carter 

and many grieving mothers...

What is Grief!

~via grieving mother, Darlene Thomas

• Grief is more than just a constellation of feelings in response to a loss.

~via grieving mother, Jill Compton

• Grief does not fade with the passage of time. We do not realize our losses in an instant; we realize them over years. We do not get over it, but instead go through it, not just once, but many times.

~via grieving mother, Faye Marie Miller. taken at Hummingbird Haven

• Grief changes form and eludes definition. 

~The Compassionate Friends/USA

• Grief sits on your chest, punches you in the gut, squeezes your throat, winds everything up breaking-point tight, and sucks the energy out of you.

~forevermaybe/tumblr

• Grief is rejected offerings and ungranted prayers.

~via Grieving Mothers

• Grief is feeling guilty because we did not stop death, could not revert death, and cannot change death.

~In Memory of Lost Loved Ones

• Grief is unabashedly wailing and drowning in your own snot and tears.

~In Memory of Lost Loved Ones

• Grief is the yearning, the reaching, and the unrequited love that hides behind our losses.

~In Memory of Lost Loved Ones

• Grief is celebration.
  
  
  
  

~ via Debra Carter who says, "Angie, I wrote this from many (others' feelings) along with mine. The authors are many grieving Mom's."