Losing someone close.

At some point, we will all lose someone close to us. It is important in this challenging reality that the challenge remains in perspective. Through loss comes gain. Through gain comes strength. Through strength comes the aptitude to move to attain the balance needed to maintain it. Getting hit hard with hard news of loss — especially when it is a loved one that is cemented in your heart — can bend your heart in the moment, but must never break it. The people you have lost would never want you to hurt yourself physically by having a stress response beyond the measure of understandable emotional pain, which in certain moments can be worse than physical pain. The key in my opinion is not learning how to let go of these feelings but rather staying in touch with them and appropriately controlling them as a result. The result of this will be managing daily with the loss and without having to let go of the significant individuals that have shaped who we are. Managing loss will always be much more effective than allowing time to heal it. There are things that time cannot heal. A main one is loss.