but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one's attitude in a… - David Kessler

"Your pain will not always be like this," I told her. "It will change." This is a message that the grieving need to hear, and in the moment of saying it, I often observe a shift. The person looks up at me and says, "It will?" And he or she suddenly becomes lighter.

I explained that there were macro forms of grief and micro forms of grief. In other words, big and little losses, and everything in between.

Disenfranchised grief is the result of a loss for which people do not feel they have a socially recognized right to grieve. Disenfranchised grief is often not openly mourned or approved of.