Grief and Mourning on the Spiritual Path
How Do We Cope with Loss On A Spiritual Journey?
I know. I know what you’re thinking, nearly a month passed and she’s only come on to rant once? What, is she dead?
Ahah.
Nope. But I have been dealing with some of the more challenging of life’s many hurdles. In no particular order:
I’ve been quite sick, twice with different viruses. I lost weight, grew weaker, and tried to build strength back up only to lose it again two weeks later.
Someone very near to my heart was diagnosed with cancer. The swift treatment that followed, while successful, was mentally and emotionally draining — not only for them, but also for me as someone who loves them deeply.
And my grandmother, the vivacious fashionista, the artist, the take-no-crap matriarch of my family, died in December. And though I’d been trying to prepare myself for years, it was still a shock to my system.
All this happened within about a month.
While I was in the thick of it I couldn’t reflect on much. I was too busy grieving. Grieving a death and grieving the possible loss of someone. Even my repetitive illness is a sign of my own mortality. I had to grieve the loss of a body that used to have greater capacity…
