Brittany Rebecca Helton

“People in mourning have to come to grips with death before they can live again, Mourning can go on for years and years. It doesn’t end after a year; that’s a false fantasy. It usually ends when people realize that they can live again, that they can concentrate their energies on their lives as a whole, and not on their hurt, and guilt, and pain.”

– Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

‘Even in my sadness I will be open to new adventures.’

‘I will rest back on the ocean of unknowing, trusting that i can ride its swells and its troughs without peril.’

‘We all need people to help us cry.’

‘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.’