Love & Love Lost

As part of their story, clients tell me about tough losses. The death of a parent or even a child. A tough divorce. Moving away from a childhood home and friends.

It doesn't have to be a painful memory to feel like a loss. How many of us are sad when our kids graduate high school or, uh hum, preschool? 

Kerry Egan, author of On Living, wrote:

"No love is ever wasted....
Even if the relationship doesn't last.
Even if it ends in pain, betrayal or death.

If no love is ever wasted, then no grief is either."

Clients go on to describe how they coped...how they grieved.

"What got us through the death of our son was family. We felt held." 

"The divorce was really tough. It hurt and I let it hurt. Then, I met my true love. And now I'm able to recognize - with appreciation - that my first love gave me my children."

When we grieve, it means we've loved something enough to grieve. Would you trade that in for something less?