Relief flooded over me as I discovered I was not lacking or morally deficient in the ways I had come to believe. The Shame is still there today, but I can distinguish it and tell it to bugger off.
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Loss and looking for sadness
I recently read a post on loss, where a man described how he would press his face into his wife's clothing, desperately searching for her scent. What he wrote caught me off-guard and I have rarely had such keen identification. I would find my father's overcoat and press my face into its lapel, inhaling deeply … Continue reading Loss and looking for sadness