Growing Around My Grief
Estimated reading time: 0 minutes, 47 seconds
Some years weigh more heavily on our hearts than others. Last year was the most challenging orbit of the sun in my lifetime. I was unprepared to manage the grief of losing Jan.
Initially, I thought my grief would shrink like recovering from the flu. Grief is not the flu.
As Dr. Lois Tonkin’s research documents, we need to grow around grief, so our grief is a smaller portion of us.
I will grow around my grief by sharing Jan’s love, and my suffering will become a smaller portion of me.
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Video on Growing Around Grief
Estimated reading time: 0 minutes, 47 secondsAmanda Carillo, an artist, created a video on TikTok that describes Tonkin’s concept of how we grow around grief. She expresses her anguish with life growing around it in circles as a painter.
@amagiovany My interpretation of this model. Picturing this in my head has been helpful. #watercolor #artistsoftiktok #therapytiktok #griefandloss
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