Tess’s words were insightful, right in the midst of her worst moment, when saying goodbye to her loved one.

‘Some of us will grieve and heal quickly, some will take a lifetime… but he [Steve, her deceased husband] will get the job done.”

The passing, though sudden and very tragic, meant his spirit, his memory, his heritage, would remain and assist in recreating each family member into the new people they would become without him around every day.

Do you believe that you will become a new person through the grief of goodbye?

It is possible. It does take time. The sadness is often in realising and accept that things will never be as they were. Things are different now, and embracing this newness, gradually, slowly and progressively… IN YOUR TIME… will allow the butterfly to burst from the cocoon.

Are you ready to be transformed?

My suggestion: Take each day as it unfolds…  and in time the healing, though possibly never complete, will take its new shape!