The Power Of Witnessing Grief

The experience of grief is made up of so many intricate and hard moments: The time when you received the life-altering news. The wailing on the other end of the phone. The tears shed. The sleepless nights and nightmares. The fear and anxiety. The painful agony that feels unescapable. The yearning for who or what you have lost. The what-ifs, if-onlys, should-haves and regrets. The questionings. The world you were familiar with, now completely altered. The stories that replay in your mind about your life that was and your life that now is. The crushed hopes for the future. Your identity in the absence of who or what you used to have.