Let's Talk About Grief

Talking about grief is not simple. There are no words that can encompass what is experienced when you lose someone loved. And it is that, in grief, an important part of you leaves with the one who departs... and another part, the one that remains, begins a metamorphosis process that, at first, hurts deeply. It is not about how long grief lasts, because it doesn't have a fixed clock. It's about what happens inside you while you go through it. There are those who manage to walk it with certain lightness; others, on the other hand, feel that their life breaks into a thousand pieces. Each process is unique, but there is something in common: you never become the same again.

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Betsy Jiménez

10/28/20252 min read

Today, October 27, marks 4 years since the departure of my dad. It has been a path full of learning. If I can say something with certainty, it is that the first three years are intense, hard. The pain is sharp, and there are days when the heart simply finds no comfort. But in this fourth year something changed: I understood something essential, something that transformed my way of seeing death and living love.

This article is inspired by three words that came to me as a whisper from the soul: respect, acceptance and grow.

Respect: Honoring the Decisions of the Soul

I learned that respecting is also letting go. It is understanding that, although we have loved intensely and done everything possible from love, each soul has a mission. And when that mission is completed, no matter how much it hurts, we must honor their decision to depart.

Sometimes it's hard to understand. We want to retain, cure, save. But there comes a moment when you understand that the purest act of love is respect: letting the soul continue its path, without burden, without judgment, without ties.

Acceptance: Embracing the Absence Without Clinging to Pain

Accepting does not mean it stops hurting. Accepting means that, even with the pain, you choose to look at their memory with gratitude and not with attachment. Because more than hurting from the absence, it hurts to carry a pain that clings to the past and does not allow healing.

Accepting is allowing love to transform. It is understanding that detachment is not forgetting, but a more subtle and lasting way of loving. It is stopping asking yourself why and starting to ask yourself for what.

Growing: Holding Yourself with What Was Learned

After a loss, everything that comes has to be done alone. And there begins the true growth: when there is no option left but to become your own support. You mature by force, from a deep and real place. You learn to live in another way, with scars that are not seen, but that make you more human, more compassionate, more present.

Growing after grief is facing your most adult version: the one that gets up even with a broken soul, the one that transforms pain into silent strength, the one that doesn't forget but keeps walking.

Final Reflection

Grief is a mastery of the soul. It has no exact steps or perfect formulas. It is an intimate journey where the only constant is love.

And although the heart takes time to understand it, there is a truth that arrives with time:

True love does not retain. It accompanies, honors and sets free.

Love does not die with the body. It remains as an invisible talisman that protects, guides and reminds that, even in the midst of pain, life continues... and that, if you choose to look with the soul, you will discover that they never left completely.

Let's Talk About Grief

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