A wall of grief : reflections for today

Its always interesting to revisit old posts. In this one my struggle to reconcile the dark and lights sides was strong only 7 months after Mum dying which affected deeply my family inner relational dynamic. Today I read it knowing how much I’ve grown as being told “to just get over it” does not trigger me half as much.

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I can’t seem to stop crying this afternoon.   Its been a hell of a morning because I reached out to someone for support last night and all I got was the message to be positive and for some reason when I am dealing with old grief or tough stuff this really triggers me and sets me into a rage.  The sheer true real fact is that some of our life and experiences are just SO GODDAM NEGATIVE AND SAD and to have to gloss over that with the demand that I be happy, well it just upsets me so much and heading towards the anniversary of my husband leaving on 4th August its challenging.   When I really hoped for some understanding and support.  I was let down.  Well people are human!

The person did apologise but this morning I could not face it to make the commitment to…

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"The religious naturalist is provisioned with tales of natural emergence that are, to my mind, far more magical than traditional miracles. Emergence is inherent in everything that is alive, allowing our yearning for supernatural miracles to be subsumed by our joy in the countless miracles that surround us." Ursula Goodenough How to describe oneself? People are a mystery and there is so much more to us than just our particular experiences or occupations. I could write down a list of attributes and they still might not paint a complete picture pf Deborah Louise and in any case it would not be the full truth of me. I would say that my purpose here on Wordpress is to express some of my random experiences, thoughts and feelings, to share about my particular journey and explore some subjects dear to my heart, such as emotional recovery, healing and astrology while posting up some of the prose/poems which are an outgrowth of my labours with life, love and relationships. If anything I write touches you I would be so pleased to hear for the purpose of reaching out and expressung ourselves is hopefully to connect with each other and find where our souls meet.

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  1. I still think it’s insensitive for people to say “just get over it”, but until they go through it themselves they probably won’t understand…..so we forgive, mostly for our own sake.

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