When you embrace and unconditionally love the being you are, then no one can disrupt that narrative and take it away from you.

Who’s checking you, boo? And if they are, are you listening? Does it make you consider changing your thoughts and actions?

Loss inevitably is the precursor to grief. One grieves because one has lost something that had significant meaning in one’s life.
The switching of the terms was very eye-opening and deliberate to me from a counseling perspective. Perhaps it is true that in the past, I have tried to treat the grief and, in turn, have not paid enough attention to the loss. 

Sometimes when we open our mouths to fight a cause, we are more annoying than we are impactful. We often jump on bandwagons without receiving context or knowing why we are doing a certain thing. Everything is not a cause! We sometimes protest too much. 

“Yes, I am a counselor, but at times like these, when someone was hurting silently, and they were family and therefore ‘under my care,’ but not in ways in which I am trained to care, I come to a standstill.”