Grief and Loss Have Weight and Substance

Carrying the Weight of Grief

Grief has weight. Like the lead apron at the dentist’s office before getting x-rays or exercise weights for your arms and legs, grief is heavy. When you are grieving, even the slightest movement is difficult. You can move forward with only the tiniest of steps because each of those steps feels like trudging through muck.

The weight is a message: Stop. You cannot move forward into any meaningful life until you recognize that this weight, this grief, requires an extended pause in your life. You must sit with the weight of grief. You must be with that weight and experience and process it completely, fully, so that when you’re ready, you can to return to life. It will be a different life, but you will not carry the weight of feelings unfelt, tears not shed, and love and loss not mourned.

Your life will have more depth, meaning, intention, and purpose because you felt and experienced the weight of grief, thus lightening the load of loss and life.