Why I Embrace Grief
Grief is hard. It affects people in all different ways. My mom passed last Monday morning early 3/23/20 and since that day I have cried just about every day. I have heard the expression of grief and mourning felt deep in your stomach and I have cried with such force that I can feel the muscles in my stomach stretch. I have been easy to cry and or sensitive this whole week while mourning and thinking of a lot of things, her life, her death, her last few days, my choices, her care, my care for her and the list goes on. I go to sleep thinking of her and wake up thinking of her. I see a movie, a flower, a rainbow a bird, I think of her. Many things remind me of her and her memory is still so fresh. I re live those last few days with her, those last hours. I embrace it. So why do I embrace grief? To me it is honoring my mom. Not letting her memory die is honoring and important to me. They say that people live on in our hearts, minds and memories. Yes, I know she is not