To grieve hard means that we have loved hard.

For me, so much of loving, living, and leading with courage means we have to do our grief work.

Grief shows up in so many ways when we really do the work:
• They didn’t turn out to be who you wanted them to be, or they don’t have what you need… grief.
• Setting boundaries and relationships changing… grief.
• Forgiveness work… grief.
• When you can’t unknow what you know now, but sometimes long for how it used to be… grief.
• They’re gone… grief.
• The dream is different or dead… grief.
• You are different… grief.

Any grief triggers all grief.
It doesn’t get better; it just gets different.
Our grief never shrinks; instead, our life, healing, and joy grow bigger around it.

To grieve hard means that we have loved hard.
And loving hard is something I will never, ever regret. <3