Today we discuss grief and pain. These tough emotions can help us with connection and love, if we allow it. Sometimes we are the ones with the pain and sometimes we are comforting someone we love. What should we say and do? What shouldn't we say? Join us today as we discuss!Bevies:Cassaundra: Perk Energy Brittney: Salted Caramel Unimate FuelWell Looky Here:Cassaundra: The Color AmberBrittney: Skin BaeResources:Letter to a Grieving Heart by Billy Sprague“No one can talk the pain away, grief drains most words of their power anyway” “My friend walked right into the agony with me. That’s what friends do.”10 Best and Worst Things to Say to Someone in GriefUnlocking Us with David KesslerDavid Kessler “ your loss is the hardest loss”“Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. Its a relationship between equals, it becomes real when we recognize our true humanity”.-Pema Chodran"Grief is the salve that helps us to heal"- Steven EastmondRefuge in Grief: Some things cannot be fixed, they can only be carried.Jody Moore Mourning with those who mourn: “Each of us individually is the best source of the answers and the way through our pain. The way through it lives within each of us” Isaiah 53: 4-5 “surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows; yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities; the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.”In this world you will have trouble, but take heart! I have overcome the world. John 16:33Elder Orson F. Whitney wrote: “No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude, and humility. … It is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire.”1“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.” Victor Hugo ( Les Miserables)Help Me Live- 20 Things people with cancer want you to know by Lori Hope

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