I am reblogging this post from last year on grief for new followers. Its ironic that my mother died only 6 weeks after I wrote several posts inspired by Robert Romanyshyn’s book.
One of the saddest most heartbreaking things I have both experienced and witnessed in my own life is how being in pain or suffering pain can lead to disconnection, right at the time we or others most need it. I shared in a recent post about a friend who I contacted who had lost her Mum a few months ago, she was feeling happy and supported in her pain. I felt a knife pain all through my heart when I read her reply, that is not what happened when my father died many years ago. As a result I buried a lot of my pain and acted it out and I have shared about that elsewhere in my blog. I also think the loss of my father that lay ungrieved led me to doubt his love due to his emotional distance which was more about his own…
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Emerging From The Dark Night 