Honor what was by allowing yourself to feel

Once we are face to face with debilitating pain and heartbreak – we are in it.  There’s nowhere else to turn but within.  

Acceptance isn’t easy, love.  Neither is a state of surrender but, if we stay with our grief rather than safely tucking it away, we allow ourselves (when we are ready to and at our pace) to feel, to process and ultimately integrate it.  

Accepting and honoring a beautiful life and all the ways that you met true love through that life. Through your person. Through your love and who you were and could only be, with each other.  Honoring all the beauty and growth you brought out in each other.  Endings bring with them a lot of emotional complexity.  The permanence of endings is brutally hard and painful to live with, but the love will not end.  If there is one thing that feeling ALL my grief has shown me, is how truly unconditional love can be.  Regardless of our person being gone for however long, we will forever love them and carry them with us in all that we do.  In all we become. 

When you feel safe to do so, allow vulnerability to keep you company.  Allow yourself to feel your feelings.  They are all valid.  Embracing them when you are ready to, is the gateway to a healing journey.