Marlise

Add friend
Sign in to Goodreads to learn more about Marlise.

https://www.goodreads.com/marlisekelsey

A Breath of Snow ...
Marlise is currently reading
by Diana Gabaldon (Goodreads Author)
bookshelves: currently-reading, fiction
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
Loading...
J.S. Park
“Speeding through grief always has a cost. To bury somebody's supposed-to-be is also to bury a story that's untold. When you bury someone's story like that, it gets lodged in the ribcage, it gets radioactive, it festers, it shouts to be heard. Grief is always a voice that needs to speak. If you suppress it, it still speaks— but not always in ways that are healthy. Not in the ways you need. It pushes through your skin like rogue splinters.
Burying a future loss without telling its story can make you sick. Timesick. You get split between timelines. The further along you go, the further away you get from that dream, and you look around and wonder how people can keep going while you want the world to stop, time to freeze, to get back to your real universe. And you get well-meaning people around you, always the ones who mean well, who are nudging you forward, shoving you, really, and you clutch two timelines until you're ripped in half.
Part of my role as a chaplain, I've learned, is to make room for these original timelines. That they may be spoken, shared. The story told. "There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you, Zora Neale Hurston said. It must be conversely true that there is no greater peace than to tell that story.”
J.S. Park, As Long as You Need: Permission to Grieve
tags: grief, loss

“As every reader knows, the social contract between you and a book you love is not complete until you can hand that book to someone else and say, Here, you’re going to love this.”
Ann Patchett, These Precious Days: Essays

Gabor Maté
“chronic illness—mental or physical—is to a large extent a function or feature of the way things are and not a glitch; a consequence of how we live, not a mysterious aberration.”
Gabor Maté, The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture

Gabor Maté
“Work pressures, multitasking, social media, news updates, multiplicities of entertainment sources—these all induce us to become lost in thoughts, frantic activities, gadgets, meaningless conversations. We are caught up in pursuits of all kinds that draw us on not because they are necessary or inspiring or uplifting, or because they enrich or add meaning to our lives, but simply because they obliterate the present.”
Gabor Maté, The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture

year in books
Deborah
2,704 books | 64 friends

Verdant...
969 books | 416 friends

Courtney
3,285 books | 38 friends

Dawn Mc...
1,168 books | 23 friends

Natalie...
311 books | 7 friends

Geoff K...
466 books | 38 friends

Dave Ma...
635 books | 88 friends

Gretche...
1,265 books | 3,115 friends

More friends…

Favorite Genres



Polls voted on by Marlise

Lists liked by Marlise