| 1 year ago :: Aug 10, 2007 - 07:59AM #1 | |
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I heard a commerical for the Sat show which will address GRIEF. I have been criticized for not grieving and being cold because of my view on death and loss. Grief is very much personal but Dr Phil came the closest to my thoughts when he said the length and depth of your grief is not a measure of your love for someone you lost. Grief is sometimes a fear of forgetting and thinking grieving as remembering when in fact we would like to really have everyone remember what about us made them laugh or happy. I see death as just a part of life like birth. Life is a circle and we all Live, Love and Lose and go on but any time spent feeling bad seems to me to be a disrespect to being alive. I do not want to waste one minute being alive not loving it. I love deeply and express my feeling and do not find when someone close to me p**** the feeling of what I can no longer do or feel because of the change of their location. Do what you need to do, say what you need to say when you need to say and do and Grief has no value for me. |
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| 1 year ago :: Aug 10, 2007 - 11:50PM #2 | |
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Fayroy, You have such an interesting perspective. I would actually say that you just explained your own method of grieving. There is no "right way" to grieve. Grief is characterized by how you do it. Grief is not always feeling bad or sad. Sometimes in order to grieve, you honor a memory, you share a happy story, you imagine the wonderful place someone has gone, you feel good about how you handled a situation. I would say that you shared beautifully your method of grieving. Thank you! Colleen |
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| 1 year ago :: Aug 11, 2007 - 08:48AM #3 | |
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Thank you for this show. It helps open the subject here at home, and has started us talking about grief. I consider it a major theme in my life, and I find I have to revisit it and let it all out over and over again. Thanks for helping me today I really needed to cry.
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| 1 year ago :: Aug 11, 2007 - 06:51PM #4 | |
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Excellent show this morning Girls! I was only able to catch the first hour, but I was very pleased with the flow of the show. Colleen, I think you held it together better than anyone could ever expect you to. I do think that every loss is different. At least for me. When I lost my younger sister to breast cancer, I gained a whole new perspective on life. I remember finding a week's worth of newspapers on my front porch, and coming to the realization that the world does not come to a screeching halt when you lose someone. I still can't visit her grave site. I have a ways to go. Anyhoo...thank you for touching on this diffecult subject. You did it with grace. |
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| 1 year ago :: Aug 12, 2007 - 08:57PM #5 | |
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So glad to hear the show struck a chord. Thanks for letting us know! If you want to hear the rest of it, the audio from both hours are posted in the What's New section of the GRG page this week.
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| 1 year ago :: Aug 12, 2007 - 09:48PM #6 | |
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BTW I noticed that the links for the audio of both hours of the show actually play last week's show about making your house a home.
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| 1 year ago :: Aug 14, 2007 - 09:02PM #7 | |
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Doh! Sorry about that - we're trying to get the podcast powers that be to fix it. Stay tuned...
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| 1 year ago :: Aug 17, 2007 - 05:24PM #8 | |
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It's so strange when life imitates art - and it seems to happen to me a lot. Last week, I was focused so much on grief as we prepared for the show. Looking back, it was almost as if the universe was helping me get prepared for grief in my own life. Literally during the grief show, my great uncle died in Michigan. And then, yesterday, a dear relative of mine passed away in Texas - I'm heading down tomorrow for the funeral. Several of my family members had listened to the show and have said they are so grateful because they were reminded of what to say and how to work through their own grief during this time of loss. Pretty cool, huh?
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