Shena, I am so very sorry to hear about your Mom, but I was really moved by what you said, "since she has passed I have had no one to talk to". I hope you will find it easy to talk to all of us here on www.onlinegriefsupport.com, because talking is such an important part of the healing process.

Talking can be a helpful release. Following the death of all ten of his children, as well as some other personal tragedies, the ancient patriarch Job said: “My soul certainly feels a loathing toward my life. I will give vent to [Hebrew, “loose”] my concern about myself. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul!” (Job 1:2, 18, 19; 10:1) Job could no longer restrain his concern. He needed to let it loose; he had to “speak.” Similarly, the English dramatist Shakespeare wrote in Macbeth: “Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak whispers the o’er-fraught heart and bids it break.”

Please talk to us - I believe it will help you feel a little less pinned to the wall.

Brenda