Megan Devine, It's Ok That You're Not Ok: Meeting Grief And Loss In A Culture That Doesn't Understand Quotes
Acknowledgment--being seen and heard and witnessed inside the truth about one's own life--is the only real medicine of grief.
Every loss is valid. And every loss is not the same. You can't flatten the landscape of grief and say that everything is equal. It isn't.
True comfort in grief is in acknowledging the pain, not in trying to make it go away. Companionship, not correction, is the way forward.
Some things cannot be fixed. They can only be carried.
When you try to take someone's pain away from them, you don't make it better. You just tell them it's not OK to talk about their pain.