Aspire Magazine: Inspiration for a Woman's Soul.(TM) Feb/March 2018 Aspire Mag Full Issue: Inner Prospe | Page 55

TRANSFORMING
GRIEF TO
hroughout life, we grieve any loss of
human love through separation, change, or
death. Even when we choose a parting that
we know is for the best, we still grieve, and
each loss we experience can compound
painfully in our heart s. Because grief
is uncomfortable, many people want to
avoid it, and many doctors prescribe anti-
depressants to those in the normal grieving
process to lessen the symptoms of loss.
It may not seem like it, but grief is actually a
powerful portal to awareness, an opportunity
to know ourselves anew when an old version
of self is phasing out. It is our system’s
natural, emotional, healing process. It has
inherent value because when experienced
fully, normal grief breaks our hearts open
wider, enabling us to love more than we
were capable of previously.
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