26/07/2025
If you are grieving, read this ❤️✨❤️. It says what is needed. 💖
Grief is not just an emotion,
it is a weight the body carries.
A fog that settles over the mind.
A quiet ache in the bones.
It is no wonder you feel tired.
In this season of sorrow, let yourself rest, deeply, unapologetically, and often.
This is not laziness.
This is the work of healing.
Nourish your body with what you can.
Even if it’s just a piece of bread, a cup of tea, or a few sips of water.
You are feeding a body that has been cracked open by loss.
Move gently.
Stretch your arms.
Step into sunlight if you can.
Breathe with intention.
The goal is not strength, but softness.
Not pushing through, but allowing yourself to be exactly as you are.
Let the tears come if they need to.
Let the silence linger if it comforts you.
Speak your loved one’s name.
Or hold it quietly in your heart.
You do not need to be ‘okay.’
You do not need to be ‘productive.’
You only need to be present with what is true for you now.
Grief is love, with nowhere to go.
Let that love cradle you, even in your exhaustion.
You are not alone in this.
You are not broken.
You are grieving.
And that is sacred work.
~ 'The Sacred Work of Grieving' by Spirit of a Hippie
~ Art by Kiera Violet
