Carrying a real loss
You're carrying a loss that's genuinely heavy, and you don't have to make it sound smaller so other people stay comfortable. Grief isn't a problem to be solved; it's love continuing on after the thing it held has gone. There's no schedule for this, no correct way to do it, and no part of you that's doing it wrong. You're allowed to set the weight down for the length of this page and simply breathe.
Read one, sit with it, and draw as many more as you need.
Grieving
Carrying a real loss
“Grief is just love that has nowhere to go now, so it stays close, circling the place where they used to be.”
More comforting words for this feeling
“There is no correct way to miss someone. However you are doing it right now is exactly how it is meant to look.”
“Some mornings you will forget for a second, then remember, and the remembering will knock the wind out of you. That is allowed.”
“You are not moving on from them. You are learning to carry them in a way that lets you keep walking.”