Compassionate Support for Coping with Grief: Grief Blog and Counseling

Often it is because we have held great pain that we are able to embrace great joy when it arrives — to take both, the aching sadness, the sweetest pleasure, and find in them fertile ground for the refashioning of our lives.

Posts tagged dying dad

My dad was dying. And somehow the naming, a trembling willingness to inhabit that fact gave me the courage I needed. To be there.