Brittany Rebecca Helton

If you wish me to weep, you yourself
Must first feel grief.

– Horace

‘Knowing how much I need sensitive listening will surley help me be a sensitve listener to others.’

“More than anything I have learned that we are all frail people, vulnerable and wounded; it is just that some of us are more clever at concealing it than others! And of course the great joke is that it is OKto be frail and wounded because that is the waythe almighty transcendent God made people.”

– Sheila Cassidy

‘In the map of the created world, the path to healing does not skirt around the edges of grief but goes right through the middle.’

“…how complicated and individual mending is; the time required for healing cannot be measured against any fixed calendar.”

– Mary Jane Moffat

‘I live one day at a time.’

‘O God, your sea is so grat and my boat is so small. Be with me.’

‘I am gratful, from the bottom of my heart, that I have shared the life of my loved one. And I trust that someday my happiness, as I remember our life together, will far outweigh the grief I feel now.’

“Excessive mourning is nonproductive, someone remarks. A social inconvenience, downright inconsiderate in the public eye. Life, according to me Orientalist friend, is a passage, a corridor, and she bids me to rid myself of morbid brooding.
Bullshit! I’m angry!’

– Toby Talbot

‘I will not be intimidated by the opinions of others on how I should be feeling. I am inside my head and my heart, and I know.’

‘Our loved ones live on in the vivid memories of the things they taught us.’

‘The discovery of the right book can bring hope and wisdom, be a companion in the dark watches of the night.’

‘Sometimes I have a sense that life is calling my name, bringing me comfort.’

‘I know I cannot force it, but, bit by bit, recovery will come.’