Processing Grief

The Archangels Offer Comfort and Guidance

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My sister, Jessica, died the weekend before Thanksgiving after a ten-year struggle with Alzheimer’s disease. I travelled to Dallas last week to attend her funeral, and now that I’m back home, I’ve begun to process my grief. It doesn’t matter that this was expected and a relief that her suffering is over; it still hurts to say that final good-bye for whatever time I have left on Earth. It doesn’t make it any easier knowing she is at peace in a beautiful place, returned home and reunited with our parents and other friends and relatives. All of that is true, I have no doubt, but it doesn’t make it any easier to let her go.

I got an email last week from someone who was grieving, asking for some guidance and comfort, I think, to move forward. This person mentioned that part of the grief felt had to do with the estrangement within the family. I hadn’t looked at it from that angle before and offered her some reassurances, but I decided to channel and write an article about grief, including the estrangement part in hopes of helping all of us deal with loss. The Archangels’ response follows.

Question: How can we best process grief, including when someone crosses over with unresolved issues involving someone they know?