This kind of grief happens when you have prolonged difficulties after a loss, making that make it hard to get on with everyday life. It makes it hard to have any positive memories of the loved one you lost.This type of grief can affect you no matter what age you are. But when it h...
The pain of loss can be all-consuming during this stage. It's common to feel a deep sense of sadness and longing for your ex-partner. This emotional pain can manifest physically, leading to symptoms such as insomnia, loss of appetite, and even physical aches. Acknowledging these feelings i...
These 30 dog quotes are about grieving and loss. Grief is a natural reaction to the loss of a loved one, including your dog. It took me months to recover from the death of Dancer, my companion for 16 years. And it took four years before I was ready to have another dog. When Relish...
Whether it’s a sudden loss or a long-term illness, the death of a loved one can be one of the most difficult experiences in life. In the movieThe Lion King, Simba experiences theloss of his father, Mufasa, and must learn to navigate life without him. Like Simba, many of us turn ...
When I didn’t have her living down the hall anymore, I felt the absence of someone who was always there for me, anytime, anywhere, to listen or give advice, or just talk about anything. I went to a college where I knew absolutely nobody. So it seriously took me being completely al...
I remember the Queen’s Jubilee street parties that were held in June 1977. I was 8 years old and I remember my sister and I dressed head to toe in red, white and blue. The whole street was closed and we danced and shared food and friendship, it was so much fun. We did this aga...
Now, we have three living reminders of what my outcome with Lucy could have been with the right monitoring and the right treatment…a healthy daughter who would be turning eight this year. Her three younger siblings, Nora, Callum and August will get to celebrate healthy milestones and birthday...
Each of us had always provided the other a word of encouragement, an available ear, a shoulder to lean on. In school, sports, and play we competed as equals, and as our lives unfolded, our friendship developed with the same equality. Staring at his body in the funeral home left me ...
"The loss of a friend is like the loss of a limb. Time heals the anguish of the wound but the loss is never returned." Author Unknown Submitted by Reeti Roy --- India This quote has been particularly inspirational for me. When my granddad passed away, this quote helped me deal with...
But arguably, we might also connect this pain to the loss ofheteronormative existence, interpreting the poetic speaker’s pain as an exampleof the profound“discomfort”which Ahmed associates with moving away fromnormativity–as an emotional response to that first, difficult step before the“fail-...