The Healing Power of Feeling Grief
When you feel grief, you also let yourself feel love.
After my bipolar I disorder diagnosis, I started to have episodes of grief, and today, I wonder what I have been grieving. Moments unlived and a life that didn’t unfold as I would have ideally loved, perhaps even genetic memory of trauma as well as some of my own. I usually let myself feel my feelings, but at the same time, I used to push them away as irrelevant and extraneous, unwilling to inspect them and their cause.
Today, I feel as though this grief I occasionally feel, needs to be felt and needs to be heard. That’s because, according to this book: Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief, that’s exactly how we open ourselves to be able to love in a healthy way. Grief is an expression of love and as long as we are able to love, we can experience grief. Our heart yearns for the lost and the lives partly in the past. The past is what makes us who we are today.
As I’ve been thinking and feeling moments in my past and how they could have been improved if I would have said or done something differently, I wonder how I could live better and do the right things moving forward. There are those who live now lacking hope, lacking trust, and lacking reason. Those people haven’t integrated with the intense pain and…
