Thank you for this work. I am enjoying learning about all of this and am tapping into my own very real and sometimes entirely overwhelming grief. ME/CFS. Re: the gap between the sublime vision and your capacity, and also, maybe a sense of not being on top of it (re: having things lined up to be posted as writing has fallen behind): what came to mind for me is that maybe this baby grows outside of you. Like, maybe this calls for the imperfect to be birthed and that the excellence grows out of that. The good thing about rough edges, too, is they can invite a kind of mutual openness with the person reading and the person having written. Just what occurred to me from over here
Thank you for this. Not only am I still in the thicket of grief from my husband passing away at the beginning of Coved, but it occurs to me that I have a ritual structure that helps me deal with chronic grief over a life not lived. In AA we meet with others who have chronic alcoholism and most likely other mental illness diagnosises. Fundamentally we support each other in our life long grief at dealing with such a debilitating illness. If you are interested in talking, I am game. Next month I will have 23 years without drinking. Still can't believe it.
I'm so, so sorry to hear about your husband, sending you love.
Congrats on your sober anniversary next month, what an achievement! I find a lot of lateral inspiration in addiction recovery -- I think addiction and chronic illness are sociologically very close cousins, with similar experiences of grief. I'm so inspired by AA as a it's ritual container for grief, as you say. If you'd like to be interviewed for GriefSick, please do fill out the form at the end of the post -- if it's a more general chat, I'm afraid I don't have capacity at the moment :-(
I don't have the capacity either! But I just filled out the form. I hope we can do something together. On my newsletter: A Suitable Vessel, https://karawesterman.substack.com/ I am serializing my journals I kept after my husbands death. I also run a daily writers salon: Writers Daily Dive, https://thedailydive.substack.com/
Thank you for this work. I am enjoying learning about all of this and am tapping into my own very real and sometimes entirely overwhelming grief. ME/CFS. Re: the gap between the sublime vision and your capacity, and also, maybe a sense of not being on top of it (re: having things lined up to be posted as writing has fallen behind): what came to mind for me is that maybe this baby grows outside of you. Like, maybe this calls for the imperfect to be birthed and that the excellence grows out of that. The good thing about rough edges, too, is they can invite a kind of mutual openness with the person reading and the person having written. Just what occurred to me from over here
Thanks Rebecca! Sending love to you and your grief xxx Beautiful reflection on birthing the imperfect as an invitation to connection. Gorgeous!
Thank you for this. Not only am I still in the thicket of grief from my husband passing away at the beginning of Coved, but it occurs to me that I have a ritual structure that helps me deal with chronic grief over a life not lived. In AA we meet with others who have chronic alcoholism and most likely other mental illness diagnosises. Fundamentally we support each other in our life long grief at dealing with such a debilitating illness. If you are interested in talking, I am game. Next month I will have 23 years without drinking. Still can't believe it.
I'm so, so sorry to hear about your husband, sending you love.
Congrats on your sober anniversary next month, what an achievement! I find a lot of lateral inspiration in addiction recovery -- I think addiction and chronic illness are sociologically very close cousins, with similar experiences of grief. I'm so inspired by AA as a it's ritual container for grief, as you say. If you'd like to be interviewed for GriefSick, please do fill out the form at the end of the post -- if it's a more general chat, I'm afraid I don't have capacity at the moment :-(
I don't have the capacity either! But I just filled out the form. I hope we can do something together. On my newsletter: A Suitable Vessel, https://karawesterman.substack.com/ I am serializing my journals I kept after my husbands death. I also run a daily writers salon: Writers Daily Dive, https://thedailydive.substack.com/