When we lose someone deeply woven into the fabric of our lives—it could be a partner, a parent, a child, a sibling, or a close friend—grief is the natural human response. When lives have been intimately shared, their absence forces us to find a new way of being, sometimes at many different levels.
For most people, the grieving process typically lasts one to three years. During that time, emotions rise and fall, and the experience can feel somewhat similar to depression—not in a negative sense, but as a turning inward. Grief asks us to withdraw, to reform ourselves, and to create a new life structure after something central has been taken away. Depression, when used positively, is a similar process. It is a reformulation of ourselves.
Your connection with your loved one is irreplaceable and unbroken. The question is how you wish to experience this human journey and whether you choose to allow grief to become a doorway into transformation and a deeper awareness of love.
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Grief isn’t just loss—it’s a breaking of patterns, not souls. If viewing grief as “loss” freezes you in time, that’s not healing—it’s paralysis dressed as spirituality.
Believing that your loved one’s energy lingers isn’t such a radical claim—it’s more radical to ask: will that belief rebuild your structure, or leave it suspended in metaphor? If grief lingers, maybe it’s not because of absence—it’s because of unexamined narratives that replaced active transformation with nostalgic fantasy.
Transformation isn’t just feeling comforted—it’s rebuilding coherence under pressure. Grief only becomes learning when you sift the remnant rhythms into structures that hold. Otherwise, healing becomes a cliché, not a foundation.
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Yes, unexamined narratives….
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