Thank you.❤️ Yeah tangled Christmas lights makes a lot of sense! I'm still working on how to feel my feelings without just sitting in them forever, that's the balance: sitting in them forever or trying to just avoided feeling them altogether.😮💨 Writing/making art about them helps!
Beautifully put ❤️ it's SO hard, especially as a creative and an empath as I know you are, to neatly separate everything. For me it's more like untangling a nest of Christmas lights. It's all still there at the end, but just a little bit more manageable x
Thank you for this, friend. As strange as it feels to write this, I think I’ve been feeling grief in very subliminal ways… more so than I am conscious of it. I think this is a truth for ‘lately’ because of where this last month has taken me- away from the U.S. and news, and into an all-encompassing situation caregiving and witnessing loss in a different way. Now that I’m back, I feel like it’s shifting again, and I don’t know what to expect, so I’m trying to let myself feel and simply notice what I’m feeling.
I really love what you said about how grief and despair are not mutually exclusive, and I agree. I’m trying to learn how to hold impossible things in tension (like grief and hope), and engage with them as they interweave or become more pronounced at different times, letting myself feel them both and motivate me to action or help me rest.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts, Kimberly! Yes, I get that grieving but not being fully conscious of it. Gosh, yeah being out of the States and then coming back must be an interesting shift right now. I'm also trying to get better at holding those seemingly opposite emotions all at once, an impossible tension, as you said. Hope you're able to rest and recover since being back!
Thank you.❤️ Yeah tangled Christmas lights makes a lot of sense! I'm still working on how to feel my feelings without just sitting in them forever, that's the balance: sitting in them forever or trying to just avoided feeling them altogether.😮💨 Writing/making art about them helps!
Beautifully put ❤️ it's SO hard, especially as a creative and an empath as I know you are, to neatly separate everything. For me it's more like untangling a nest of Christmas lights. It's all still there at the end, but just a little bit more manageable x
Thank you for this, friend. As strange as it feels to write this, I think I’ve been feeling grief in very subliminal ways… more so than I am conscious of it. I think this is a truth for ‘lately’ because of where this last month has taken me- away from the U.S. and news, and into an all-encompassing situation caregiving and witnessing loss in a different way. Now that I’m back, I feel like it’s shifting again, and I don’t know what to expect, so I’m trying to let myself feel and simply notice what I’m feeling.
I really love what you said about how grief and despair are not mutually exclusive, and I agree. I’m trying to learn how to hold impossible things in tension (like grief and hope), and engage with them as they interweave or become more pronounced at different times, letting myself feel them both and motivate me to action or help me rest.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts, Kimberly! Yes, I get that grieving but not being fully conscious of it. Gosh, yeah being out of the States and then coming back must be an interesting shift right now. I'm also trying to get better at holding those seemingly opposite emotions all at once, an impossible tension, as you said. Hope you're able to rest and recover since being back!