"Positive" and "Negative" in Grief

Day 67: “Positive” & “Negative” in Grief

Let’s be careful about the use of the words “positive” and “negative” to describe our own grief, or the grief journey of others.

Grief is beyond positivity.

Grief is beyond negativity.

Grief is neither positive nor negative.

Grief doesn’t want to be described either way.

Grief is a way through loss and change.

Grief isn’t felt because a person “is being negative.” It is felt because the person loved. And lost. And because there is a massive change happening. Grief is felt because we are human. Not because there is anything wrong with us.

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