✨Sometimes I think one of the deepest griefs a person can carry is losing the parent who first made them feel loved, safe, or protected. When a man loses his mother, there can be a grief that reaches far beyond words because she may have been the first woman who ever held him with unconditional love. ✨And when a woman loses her father there can be a feeling of losing the first man who made her feel protected, chosen, or safe within the world. Not because parents are perfect but because early love leaves an imprint on the heart. And sometimes healing is realizing how much of our adult lives are shaped by the ways we learned love, loss, presence, protection, and absence from the very beginning. We do not simply “move on.”We carry these loves with us and slowly learn how to keep living while honoring what they meant to us. Listening deeply, always 🤍