Aspire Magazine: Inspiration for a Woman's Soul.(TM) Aug/Sept 2017 Aspire Mag Full Issue | Page 38
My Journey Through
Grief to Gratitude
BY JAMI HEARN
E
very person’s experience around
grief is uniquely their own, and every one
of them is exactly perfect. I am sharing my
own because it is utterly important that you
love yourself through the snot filled tears
and angry outbursts... right up through the
beautiful moment that the gratitude firmly
seats in your core!
I have always been comfortable with death.
Perhaps that is because I believe that death
is a transition and the energy of the soul can
communicate with us beyond the veil… or
perhaps, my perspective comes from my
family’s tradition of celebrating the life of our
loved one. Mourning is left to days or weeks
later… by yourself.
My first recollection of the celebration of life
was for my great grandfather when I was 4. My
most vivid memory, from that day, is of my 11
year-old cousin being inconsolable… I could
not fathom why she was so upset… he was
old and miserable… why didn’t she realize
that this was best for him… and us… no more
suffering and no more having to watch it.
I have experienced the normal spectrum of
deaths. My best friend in high school, in a
car accident, my cousin at 24 years old to
brain aneurysms; my dad when I was 34
and most recently my grandfather.
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