THE 16 LESSONS • LESSON 5

Permission To Cry

You don't have to hold your tears back. Especially in the early days of grief, crying is part of healing.

I didn't even know it was possible to cry as much as I did in the weeks and months following Dave's death. Everywhere I turned, there was another reminder or memory that brought on the tears.

I let them come.

I deserved to cry.

When you love hard, you cry hard. There will come a time when you'll have more control over your tears, but you don't need to worry about that now.