Sharing your grief story helps to ease the pain, just a little. It’s essential to your well being to share your story often and in detail. Grief stories similar to your story may give you a since of soladarity with other fellow grievers. It is really integral to the grieving process to express your pain and sorrow. You really do have to speak your pain to begin healing. Reading about other people’s journey through the grief process may help inspire you to continue to live your best life. It also will give you a sense of inclusiveness and motivate you to reinvent yourself if the grief story is similar to your own situation. It’s a reminder that you are not alone, and you will survive this tragic loss. Every time you share your grief story, you will begin to notice a difference in yourself, and it will start to get less uncomfortable to talk about your mom or not. Everybody grieves differently, so only time will tell how you come out on the other side of grief.
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Becoming A Mother, After Losing Mine
“I am a motherless daughter, now fatherless too, but I am not without heart and resilience and grit.”
“In a way, this past year has felt more isolating than my first year as a member of the ‘Dead Mom Club.
“Thanks to my friend and her mom, I was saved from a pretty awful holiday—and found a husband.”
“In only 14 years, my mom taught me everything I need to know for my life.”
“I’d always been the moon to my mom’s bright shining sun. How do you live without the sun?”
“Grief isn’t about ‘closure.’ Nor is it something to overcome or get past. It’s something to lean into, to embrace.”
“The worst part is not mourning the loss of what you did have, but mourning the loss of what you were supposed to have.”
“My mother was a remarkable woman. She was a fighter and hard worker and never complained about being tired or not feeling well.”
“I’m passionate about saving other women from the kind of suffering my mom endured.”
“I have found and am embracing my Option B, and I believe that everyone else can, too.”
“I had lived through the end of the world before I had even experienced truly living in it.”
“She’s always going to be in our memory. She’s always going to be in our hearts.”
“The loss is gut-wrenching. But I have realized the best way to honor her is to keep living. I laugh and find joy every day.”
“In grief, there’s no need for answers.”
“As I moved forward, I was faced with an enormous challenge: figuring out how to survive while grieving a lifetime of loss.”
“My friends’ love and support got me through it.”
