Change the Rules of Grief
Maybe what we need instead of trying to mourn towards understanding are spaces of recollection where people can bring more silence than dialogue, empathetic witness and presence over completion.
1 Quote
"The most frustrating thing about grief is that there is no fixing it. Instead, we must create space for the grief to exist and to emerge when it needs to, and when it feels right, grieve with others who are capable of holding and seeing us in our pain" – Jenny T. Wang, PhD, Permission to Come Home
1 Reflection
In 1985, French film-maker Claude Lan…
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