✨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 🤍