3 ways to rewrite how we grieve | Grace Barnes | TEDxUniversityofPretoria

When grief arrives, allow her a place to sit. Let her remove her shoes at the door and offer her water for her stay. Welcome her with arms open, even if she overstays.And only when she's familiar with the cracked wallpaper in your kitchen where you have spent your days making tea in the morning. Only then will she leave and say, "Here, we grieve, but we do not drown." What if we saw our grief differently. What if we saw it as something that is here to heal and not harm.What if grief was the woman who came t ...