It’s a whole new way to look at grief and I embrace it. When I wrote about honesty in motherhood, I got similar feedback - folks wanted to send me to a psychologist - as if expressing the hardship of motherhood was a mental issue!
I can't find it now, I went through my logs. As any writer does I have been sifting through my archives and this whole blog post came up. I REMEMBER that I was starting to have a felt sense of unprocessed grief in the body and that the body grieves, small, non-hallmark card worth events - but that is all I can say for sure. I remember of the response I got pity or solutions from many people, but not a lot of resonance. Still fascinates me and I think the conversation has changed (improved).
It’s a whole new way to look at grief and I embrace it. When I wrote about honesty in motherhood, I got similar feedback - folks wanted to send me to a psychologist - as if expressing the hardship of motherhood was a mental issue!
Yup, you get it. There is little bandwidth for the polarity of our reality. Well said.
I’m very curious about the Facebook post and how some people reacted. They misunderstood your mention of grief for a personal cry for help?
I can't find it now, I went through my logs. As any writer does I have been sifting through my archives and this whole blog post came up. I REMEMBER that I was starting to have a felt sense of unprocessed grief in the body and that the body grieves, small, non-hallmark card worth events - but that is all I can say for sure. I remember of the response I got pity or solutions from many people, but not a lot of resonance. Still fascinates me and I think the conversation has changed (improved).