Grieving Your Loss

Our brains think that we are going to progress.

We are going to make more money than our parents.

We are going to be able to help our kids monetarily.

If we work hard enough we will accumulate all the things… the cars and house and clothes and toys.

We think that ten years from now we will be smarter and healthier and happier and richer.

But life doesn’t always work that way.

If you don’t have the money you used to have, (or thought you would have) you may need to grieve that loss.

Even if that loss isn’t real.

Grieve that the dream is over.

Allow yourself.

Stop telling the well-intentioned lie that you need to take care of your children first.
Or your friends.
Or your family.

This time take care of yourself first.
Grieving is self care.

Grieve the life you won’t have.

Don’t spend the rest of your life negotiating your happiness.
“I will be happy once I have X amount of money.”

Grieve fully.
FEEL IT.
Don’t fight it.

Fighting it only ramps it up.

But then, when your grief lessens, open your eyes to how the universe is bestowing its riches on you.

Don’t give your power away to something you can’t control.

Grief is an amazing healing process.
Do it without the judgment and blame and hate.

Life doesn’t always work the way we think it is supposed to.
But sometimes it delivers things in a more deeply rich way.

The trick is to be open to seeing the riches come in a different way than you expected.