I’ve written before about grief hangovers (6 May 2023) and the effect grief has on our nervous system (22 and 29 April 2023), and yet, over a year after these posts were written, I’ve still been surprising myself this month with the ongoing impact of grief on my day to day ability to cope with stressful, or even slightly stressful, situations.
Thank you Jennie, for sharing your thoughts. Much of what you write, I also feel, but am unable to put into words, so I am grateful to you for making some sense of things (if there can be any sense to this). This piece particularly resonated with me.
I'm sure your friends and family tell you, but please don't be hard on yourself, in not following your own advice. It is so easy to say, but so much harder to do.
For us, May is the month of John's birth and June, the month of his death.
I was able to rearrange my week, so that I wasn't working (on 4th June), but even still, have been feeling totally exhausted and struggling to function. And I keep thinking 'why?'
As you so perfectly put it:
"in order to cope with the demands of daily life in a body and heart that are forever touched by grief"
Thank you Jennie, for sharing your thoughts. Much of what you write, I also feel, but am unable to put into words, so I am grateful to you for making some sense of things (if there can be any sense to this). This piece particularly resonated with me.
I'm sure your friends and family tell you, but please don't be hard on yourself, in not following your own advice. It is so easy to say, but so much harder to do.
For us, May is the month of John's birth and June, the month of his death.
I was able to rearrange my week, so that I wasn't working (on 4th June), but even still, have been feeling totally exhausted and struggling to function. And I keep thinking 'why?'
As you so perfectly put it:
"in order to cope with the demands of daily life in a body and heart that are forever touched by grief"
Take care of yourself xx
Thanks for this Val. Sorry not to comment earlier, I've had a longer break from Substack than I expected.