LIKE A GREAT RIVER THAT SHAPES LANDSCAPES, GRIEF IN FLOW HAS THE CAPACITY TO ALTER LIVES
Grief is the single most overlooked emotion of our time. It has tremendous capacity to connect our most intimate sorrows with our greatest joys. When we solely focus on joy/happiness/good vibes, which we do a lot of in this modern world, we bypass a hugely important piece of our hardwired process that opens us up to authentic gratitude and praise. When we directly engage with our grief, we burst open vibrant opportunities for individual, collective, and social transformation. So yeah, let's cry.
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You have a right to cry in public places. Your tears will hit new octaves. Feel free to make an opera on every street corner that will have you.
-J Mase III from The Grieving Bill of Rights in And Then I Got Fired: One Transqueer's Reflections on Grief, Unemployment & Inappropriate Jokes About Death
We might find then that learning to grieve constructively by allowing ourselves to hurt to the full is not an unwholesome luxury, definitely taboo as some imagine, but plain common sense; that by sincerely expressing genuine feelings, and feeling, we are not wallowing but keeping emotionally balanced--sane.
-Shirley Koers in The Eyes Are Sunlight: A Journey Through Grief