Mourning Mother’s Day
Ever heard the adage, “A woman’s work is never done”? Waking up to Mother’s Day is one of those days that a grieving woman’s work is never done. How? You might ask. Like doing laundry, or cleaning up after meals, washing sinks and toilets; grief work is now added to the list of chores to pay attention to. The difference is that doing healthy grief work really brings relief and puts your broken heart in a healing trajectory.
Grief Exhaustion
One reason why grief makes us tired is that it’s just plain overwhelming. Dealing with emotional, complex, and stressful experiences is likely to leave us emotionally exhausted.
An Empty Chair, or Not
Without their son, Robbie, how could they step into Thanksgiving and survive? This year would be different, just the closest of their family was gathering. She was asked only to set the table. The rest of the family would bring the traditional menu. Right now, she is sure that making gravy would have been easier on her than setting the table. Robbie would not be sitting with them. What should she do? Set his place or not. The tears wouldn’t stop.
