Afternoon Phenom Queens, it’s Welcome-Wednesday!
I hope that you took a moment to yourselves since last week to choose at least 1 thing that you’d like to welcome into your energy space this week. Guess what? It can be the same thing for consecutive weeks if you’re focused on pattern replacement. That’s A-okay!
My choice this week is to welcome grace to grieve. To abandon thoughts of a timeline for being finished with mourning a loss. Grief is said to have different steps and while I agree with the steps I’ve researched and experienced. The one step not included is a notice "beware, grief comes in waves at unexpected moments"! You can be having a fun filled experience that temporarily allows your mind and emotions a quiet reprieve and out of no where comes the wave. Sometimes I can describe it in words and others it’s indescribable.
Grief is not linear, it is a winding, twisted, and ever-changing course. Grieving can be connected to the loss of a loved one, the loss of an opportunity or even the loss of what you had in mind. In either case it’s most likely that you’ll experience different thoughts about it on different days. The question is then, how do you navigate the uncertain waves?
Being the analyzer that I am: I compartmentalize my emotions and responsibilities to cope in rotation. In the last year, I’ve been soothed in the exchange of conversation with friends. Other times I’ve just sat with the feeling, acknowledged, and rode the wave until peace returned. I pray, I've implemented spiritual practices and I’m not opposed to therapy.
I welcome, on this Wednesday the grace to grieve. I am practicing self-compassion.
Until next time...
In memory of my country loving cousin-sister who would've been 49 tomorrow. It's been 7 months since you were at my house on Tuesday and gone on Wednesday. Every time I hear Cody Johnson's song 'Til You Can't I blast it thinking of you! Keep flying high~
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