Day 52: You Have to Cry All of Your Tears
When I was in school at the University of Santa Monica pursuing my Master's Degree in Spiritual Psychology, my professors would always say that whenever you are grieving "you have to cry all of your tears". That has certainly been my experience. I have gone through the grief cycle more than one time in my life, and it isn't always about the death of a loved one. Most of the grief work that I did in my 30's was based on my parent's divorce although I really didn't understand that until I got to the bottom of it. Because I've done the work before, it's fairly easy to recognize it when the opportunity for emotional release appears again. Grief doesn't always make sense, and it isn't always felt in proportion to current circumstances. Sometimes the necessity for tears is bigger than the situation seems to warrant. In all cases, I have learned through conscious grieving to embrace the opportunity when it does appear, to grab it with both