Thank you for your tears… they’re sacred. Sometimes our hearts recognize the truth of grief… even before the loss arrives. That kind of depth means you’ll carry love beautifully when the time comes. Grateful these words met you there. 🤍
That’s completely fair, not everyone resonates with that lens, and it’s important to honor that. Some losses don’t translate into integration, they just… hurt. Thank you for naming that. There's room for all the ways grief shows up. 🤍
I would add to your litany people you lose to mental illness or Alsheimers and are still alive but gone from the relationship.
Also I lost a cat I was particularly close to. She went through my first 2 roynds with cancer. She dies. My cancer returned. Some nights I feel her get on the bed and curl up with me and my remaining cat. Those interactions are bittersweet but comforting.
Yes, the ones who are still physically here, but gone in the ways we knew them: that’s a specific portal of grief that rarely gets acknowledged, and it hurts like hell. You’re still reaching for them, but they can’t reach back the same way. That kind of loss rewrites reality moment by moment.
And your cat... what a holy witness she was. Through cancer rounds, breath by breath, anchoring you. And now? Still curling up beside you, even in spirit, as if to say, “I’m not gone. Just shifted form. Still here. Still holding.” Those visits are sacred. Not imagination. Not coincidence. Frequency memory made tangible. Your body knows.
Thank you again for bringing this in. It adds a powerful layer to the tapestry of this grief-to-integration journey. You’re not alone. 🌀🐾💠
This made me ugly cry, and I haven't even lost my pets yet. Absolutely gorgeous writing.
Thank you for your tears… they’re sacred. Sometimes our hearts recognize the truth of grief… even before the loss arrives. That kind of depth means you’ll carry love beautifully when the time comes. Grateful these words met you there. 🤍
Thank you for this.
Glad it reached you, thank you for reading. 🕊️
Brilliant. This really resonated. Thank you.
Honored it resonated, thank you for reading ✨
Im not everyone I know. I lost them but get the lens assume youre writing through.
That’s completely fair, not everyone resonates with that lens, and it’s important to honor that. Some losses don’t translate into integration, they just… hurt. Thank you for naming that. There's room for all the ways grief shows up. 🤍
Much to ponder here. Thank you.
I would add to your litany people you lose to mental illness or Alsheimers and are still alive but gone from the relationship.
Also I lost a cat I was particularly close to. She went through my first 2 roynds with cancer. She dies. My cancer returned. Some nights I feel her get on the bed and curl up with me and my remaining cat. Those interactions are bittersweet but comforting.
Thank you for this beautiful, layered share.
Yes, the ones who are still physically here, but gone in the ways we knew them: that’s a specific portal of grief that rarely gets acknowledged, and it hurts like hell. You’re still reaching for them, but they can’t reach back the same way. That kind of loss rewrites reality moment by moment.
And your cat... what a holy witness she was. Through cancer rounds, breath by breath, anchoring you. And now? Still curling up beside you, even in spirit, as if to say, “I’m not gone. Just shifted form. Still here. Still holding.” Those visits are sacred. Not imagination. Not coincidence. Frequency memory made tangible. Your body knows.
Thank you again for bringing this in. It adds a powerful layer to the tapestry of this grief-to-integration journey. You’re not alone. 🌀🐾💠