02/02/2026
grief is not the fire itself, but the cold, persistent residue left after an intense, life-changing experience.
Transformation occurs while the ashes are cold, they are often seen as the necessary, raw material from which a new, different life can eventually be built.
True resilience is often described not as forgetting or removing the loss, but as learning to live alongside it, perhaps finding "beauty amongst the ashes" feeling to heal finding meaning and life after profound loss.