DURING YOUR GRIEF, CONSIDER REFLECTING:
When have you felt the need t o stay strong for others?
Where in your life feels s a f e e n o u g h to let grief show?
Wh o l i s t e n s without try - i n g t o f i x y o u r p a i n ?
What small space could you create this week to feel what you’ve been carrying?
The image of composure—the steady widow, the capable par- ent, the reliable caretaker—is powerful because it reflects some - thing real: our capacity to love others even while breaking inside. But strength is not the absence of sorrow. Strength is allowing grief to arrive when it needs to. Strength is asking for help. Strength is crying in safe spaces.
Strength is continuing to love in a world that now hurts. togeth- er in the early days of loss is not a failure to grieve. It is the body protect- ing what matters most. Healing begins when you al- low yourself—slowly, gen- tly—to loosen that grip.• Holding yourself
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