Grief Does Us
Our focus this week: “Good Grief”. Today’s MotD reminds us that grief has its own timeline. It takes what it takes for us to process it. We can be going about our days, weeks, even years and out of the blue, grief can arise to the surface in need of some more processing. It’s neither good nor bad, it just is.
Grief is an energy form working its way through our entire system. For some things, the whole process can take a day, for others it seems infinite. I know that I have some unresolved grief processing to do, it pops up once in a while. My usual MO is to squelch it and say to myself “I’ll deal with it later”, which means it tries even harder the next time…it may even be what’s fueling my weight gain.
As I said yesterday, this is something I struggle with and I sincerely hope I can drum up the courage to allow it to make its presence known so I can heal what’s wanting to be healed.
BTW…an excellent book (IMHO) for processing and/or understanding grief: “How to Survive the Loss of a Love” by By Harold H. Bloomfield, Melba Colgrove, and Peter McWilliams. Every time I buy this book for myself I end up giving it away to someone else. I love this book because 1) it’s an easy read, 2) it applies to all levels of loss, from loss of keys to loss of a child, and 3) offers recommendations for coping with pain and achieving comfort.
Writing this post inspired me to purchase yet another copy…which I plan to keep for myself.
How about you ? What’s your take on grief ? Do you try to control when and how it shows up ? Or, do you it allow it to lead you where it needs to go ?
BTW…Here’s the before…the front and back view of today’s puzzle piece and the pretty ceramic box that holds all my numbers from which I randomly choose each day’s puzzle piece number:
Peace & Blessings,
Maureen
The Mandala Lady
Creating Mandalas 🔆 Awakening Inner Harmony
ABOUT THE 2025 Mandalas of the Day
Throughout the year, I’ll be building one large (48”x48”) Tibetan-styled Mandala one piece at a time…one puzzle piece at a time, that is. The mandala design and the reversed puzzle side were printed on artist-quality watercolor paper. The forward facing puzzle side was printed on a 48”x48” wood panel.
Each day, at random, I’ll be painting in watercolors one of the 365 watercolor puzzle pieces, that by the end of the year will become Archangel Mandala #4. Read more about the Archangel Series. The word/message for each piece will be inspired by Melody Beattie’s book “52 Weeks of Conscious Contact”.
Ultimately, the message of this mandala is about how we are all uniquely part of the one.
Mandala of the Day 