How can grief and depression help me become stronger?

Grief makes you aware of your own vulnerability. When you lose someone close to you, you recognize your own mortality. When someone leaves you, you realize that you can drive people away.

When you let go of a central and familiar part of your identity, you see that who you are is not as stable and permanent as you might have wished. A dream that never came true may cause you to recognize your limitations. As you experience your vulnerability, you may begin to feel weak and fragile.

This feeling of fragility may feel new to you. As you expand to allow more of this feeling, you may feel a strange sense of opening to movement and energy. In this state of fragility, you openly face the shards of your broken dreams and hopes.

Your openness to this experience may allow you the fluidity to pick up the broken shards and arrange them in a pattern, like a mosaic or a stained glass window. You can become capable of creating something hauntingly beautiful and strangely original from this colorful collection of broken shards. Vulnerability of the heart is a natural outcome of grief.

When depression forces you to slow down and forge a relationship with loss, it offers you a gift: a chance to develop the strength, sensitivity, and intelligence of your heart, through vulnerability. Just identifying your vulnerability will help you honor the gift in your depression and recover. Grief helps you to recognize your dependence on others and gain clarity about the depth and focus of your own needs.

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