If you have been through something tragic and unbearable in your life, I am so sorry. I hope that you haven't, but if you have, I honor you and your grief and want to acknowledge you for still being here.
Some of the people I know who now live on this side of tragedy have told me that they didn't believe they could live through it. I'm so glad they did.
They told me that the only way they got through their own unbearable grief was to breathe through it. Others have shared how their loss opened their heart and their mind to a new life purpose.
Some work as advocates in areas related to their loss; the work they do honors the loved ones they lost. Everyone who has survived a personal tragedy of great magnitude can attest to the transformational nature of unbearable grief and to the fact that love is strengthened—not lost—in loss.
Author and inspirational speaker Elizabeth Gilbert got it exactly right when she said, "It's an honor to be in grief. It's an honor to feel that much, to have loved that much." Somehow, sometimes, we do survive the unbearable.