There are times in life when we have to listen to the wisdom we so often offer to others: healing takes time, and we cannot always hurry the process.
After many years of writing for Grief Healing, sending a weekly newsletter, and sharing newly written articles with you, I need to take some of my own advice.
I will be stepping away for a while as I undergo ankle replacement surgery and begin the long process of recovery. This is not an easy decision for me. Writing about grief, loss, love, and healing has been such a meaningful part of my life. More than that, the connection I have had with readers over the years has meant more to me than I can easily put into words.
Some of you have written to me in the midst of the most painful moments of your lives. You have shared the deaths of husbands and wives, parents and children, brothers and sisters, dear friends and beloved animal companions. You have told me about the losses that changed everything—and about the small ways you have found to keep going.
I have treasured those letters and those connections.
So it feels strange to say that, for a while, I need to put the writing aside and concentrate on something much more ordinary and personal: my own recovery from ankle replacement surgery.
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