You Are Not Your Grief

"You are not your grief. You are what the grief is moving through."

Death and Dying Educator Frank Ostaseski said those words.

On the other side of our grief are the new parts of our selves waiting to be discovered. A new self with new wisdom, gifts, and experiences to share. 

There may be some really tough times. Profound pain.

But people say this helped them get to a new place:

1. They named the loss they were experiencing.

2. They avoided black and white thinking and went for the gray.

3. They owned their grieving self.

4. They let themselves welcome the new.

We can trust in the basic rhythm of life, death and rebirth.

Life goes on. Winter is followed by Spring. After death, there is rebirth.