Dealing With Loss, the Best Way You Can

I didn’t grow up in the funeral industry, but my mother passed away when I was 20, which affected me greatly. I research a lot, trying to find words of comfort to pass along in these articles.  Trust me, I know these articles won’t make your pain go away, but they may distract you from it, if only for a moment.

After such a devastating loss, it’s a new weight you will carry.  A new distraction, a new feeling, a new memory.  Eventually that weight will get a little more bearable, but it never goes away.  You can ask a two-year-old girl or a 92-year-old woman, “Do you miss your momma?” I promise the majority of the time you will get the same answer.

Don’t be afraid of talking about your lost loved ones.  It’s important for the younger generations to know where they came from and to know, maybe, where they get some of their personality traits.

I have personally found that things that can help include talking with others, journaling (it’s so interesting how it works!), and baking Christmas cookies.  A tradition I took way, way overboard that I shared with my mother was that every Christmas Eve, we would watch a holiday movie and decorate sugar cookies with tweezers.  Enough said.  Create a tradition you can live with and enjoy, and know your loved one is proud of you.

You made it another year!  Proud of you!

— Janice Smallwood.

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