ローラ・スペンサーのインスタグラム(itslauraspencer) - 1月24日 06時13分

Stopped. (A post about Grief)

I went through a traumatic personal loss not long ago that made everything suddenly come to a screeching halt in my life. I have struggled with grief and how much time it takes to allow space for it. It is hard to be forced to stop. It is hard to sit in sadness, anger, and pain while everyone and everything else around you seems to continue moving forward. It is hard to not just run the red light and keep going at the pace you were going, trying to keep up, consequences be damned. The notion that I’m no longer moving as quickly as I would have liked to or in the direction I thought I was headed in has been hard to understand but absolutely necessary to accept. Though I am exhausted by grief I must honor the process. I must not be hard on myself along the way. I’m where I am right now and it isn’t permanent. Slowly but surely I am gathering tools to help me in my journey moving forward, but I need to accept the duration of this particular stop and that there will inevitably be other stopping points along the way in life. //
I share this today for a few reasons. Perhaps my willingness to share my struggle can help someone else feel less alone in theirs. I also felt like writing something creative today and I saw this photo I took over the summer that made me feel a lot of things when I looked at it, so I used it as a prompt. Finally, I’m learning that it’s important to share moments of vulnerability with others. It’s important that I don’t contribute to the narrative on social media that life is only filled with happy moments. There are such difficult lows too and you are not alone.

[BIHAKUEN]UVシールド(UVShield)

>> 飲む日焼け止め！「UVシールド」を購入する