A Time to Grieve: Meditations for Healing After the Death of a Loved One

ISBN-13: 9780062508454

Media Type: Paperback

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Publication Date: 07-08-1994

Pages: 256

Product Dimensions: 5.00(w) x 7.40(h) x 0.62(d)

Carol Staudacher is a grief consultant, lecturer, and author of Beyond Grief and Men and Grief.

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I need to keep my mind clear and just think this through.

All great discoveries are made by [people]
whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.
--C. H. Parkhurst

Some survivors try to think their way through grief. That doesn't work. Grief is a releasing process, a discovery process, a healing process. We cannot release or discover or heal by the use of our minds alone. The brain must follow the heart at a respectful distance. It is our hearts that ache when a 'loved one dies. it is our emotions that are most drastically affected. Certainly the mind suffers, the mind recalls, the mind may plot and plan and wish, but it is the heart that will blaze the trail through the thicket of grief.

Grief is a discovery process. I will open myself to the discoveries my heart and head will make. Grief is a healing journey, and I will trust my heart to lead my head in this journey.