Brittany Rebecca Helton

‘My resolve to live “one day at a time” also means “one world at a time”. But where my loved one is, a fragment of my spirit lives, and waits.’

“Over the nowhere arches the everywhere.”

– Maria Rainer Rilke

‘Even when I can’t see the sun, I know that it’s there.’

‘I accept my mood swings as part of the process of healing.’

‘My dreams are a means of understanding and growth.’

“If we can choose where to cry, at home or with a few people who will be fully understanding, perhaps we will feel easier. But if we can’t – if we are in church and a hymn catches us off guart, or at a football game and we remember being there with a son or daughter now gone – well, the earth is our home and we can cry where we want.”

– Martha Whitmore Hickman

‘Our questions are unanswerable. The real question is one of trust.’

“We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.”

– Marcel Proust

‘I will be present to my grief; it is my only way to new life.’

‘I welcome, as a blessing from my loved one, the return of light and joy to my life.’

“Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver.”

– Sophocles

‘Of course my mind sometimes plays tricks on me. I’ll regain my steadiness and good sense after a while.’

‘I believe in the top of the mountain even when I can’t see it.’