Thanks for sticking with me despite my sporadic posting. While I knew that starting my Masters in Creative Writing would reduce the amount of spare time I would have to write on Substack, I’d hoped I’d be able to reduce from weekly posts to monthly ones, but it seems that every other month is a more realistic target for me.
Thank you for this post. In the other parts of my life, I feel strong and resilient. But when confronted with my husband's diagnosis of advanced cancer, I was neither of those. Appreciated the idea that resilience isn't necessarily something to strive for in grief.
I used to use the word resilient to express who I thought I was.
My circumstances have changed and today I read your blog post and thought, no you are correct. I am no longer resilient and don't want to feel strong and "bounced back", because I haven't. I am just keeping on.
Thank you for this post. In the other parts of my life, I feel strong and resilient. But when confronted with my husband's diagnosis of advanced cancer, I was neither of those. Appreciated the idea that resilience isn't necessarily something to strive for in grief.
I used to use the word resilient to express who I thought I was.
My circumstances have changed and today I read your blog post and thought, no you are correct. I am no longer resilient and don't want to feel strong and "bounced back", because I haven't. I am just keeping on.
So I am not going to use resilient anymore.