Words that let me stop fighting my grief, and begin feeling it

Words that let me stop fighting my grief, and begin feeling it

The months that followed my diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease were heavy and painful for both my head and my heart. My body had malfunctioned catastrophically, and my mind was suddenly expected to process the enormous emotional fallout. Every day seemed to bring another loss, another fear, another question I could not answer. At times, it felt as though my brain would implode from the sheer pressure of all the emotions I was processing. Although …