Amanda Bennett's Blog - Posts Tagged "grief"
SITTING WITH GRIEF
After Terence died, I got some advice from a dear friend. I had spent most of the previous seven years trying to keep Terence alive -- to "fix" the problem. "This isn't something you can fix," she said. "This is something you have to sit with." I found it great advice. Would you have? What advice have you given people?
Sarah Brokaw - Fortytude
Here's a blog I wrote for Sarah Brokaw's Fortytude project...
http://www.sarahbrokaw.com/august-aut...
http://www.sarahbrokaw.com/august-aut...
Denial.....
Why is denial good?
In this article I talk about it.... Here's an excerpt:
"I’d say that you have to realize that denial is a two-edged sword. Denial is unbelievably positive. To call it “denial” is almost ridiculously understating what it is. .... We absolutely refused to believe he was going to die, and as a result we never did act like he was going to die. And with everything we went through, we had glorious, happy, event-filled lives almost to the last minute.
(Denial).... helped us to be normal. It gave him the ability not even three weeks before he died to tell somebody, "I’ve had a wonderful, wonderful life."
http://www.nextavenue.org/article/201...
In this article I talk about it.... Here's an excerpt:
"I’d say that you have to realize that denial is a two-edged sword. Denial is unbelievably positive. To call it “denial” is almost ridiculously understating what it is. .... We absolutely refused to believe he was going to die, and as a result we never did act like he was going to die. And with everything we went through, we had glorious, happy, event-filled lives almost to the last minute.
(Denial).... helped us to be normal. It gave him the ability not even three weeks before he died to tell somebody, "I’ve had a wonderful, wonderful life."
http://www.nextavenue.org/article/201...
