Life-Lessons — Remaining Resilient
What Grief Has Taught Me About Life, Regrets, and Gratitude
Sometimes, the Biggest Blessings in Life Come Wrapped in Very Sad Lessons
My life has turned into a sad replication of a country music ballad. I lost my dog, my husband, and most recently, my grandmother, who served as a mother-figure my entire life.
Let’s just say the past six months have been challenging, to put it mildly.
The reason I write this isn’t to bitch and moan about how pissed off, and saddened, and emotionally drained I am (though I am all those things as well).
Instead, I write this hoping that maybe some of the coping mechanisms I’ve put into place can help someone else cope with a challenging time in their lives.
There Will Never Be Enough Time
If we’ve lost anything between my grandmother’s generation and my own, it’s a sense of community. After giving birth to my daughter, there was no large group of other moms for me to go to for advice. No grandparents or parents were living in my home with me to help show me how to parent, it was just my husband and me, and he was working 15+ hour long days to make up for the week he had to take off when I had my…
