Grief violates convention: it is raw, primal, seditious, chaotic, writhing, and most certainly uncivilized. Yet grief is an affirmation of human passion, and only those who are apathetic, who stonewall love, who eschew intimacy can escape grief's pull.
No intervention and no interventionist can 'cure' our grief. And we are not broken - we are brokenhearted.
Grief is not a medical disorder to be cured.
Grief is not spiritual crisis to be resolved.
Grief is not a social woe to be addressed.
Grief is, simply a matter of the heart - to be felt."
- Dr. Joanne Cacciatore
From Bearing the Unbearable
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