Tara Swart asserts that processing grief requires fully feeling and going into the depth of the emotions rather than trying to suppress them or immediately returning to work.

“I had this really strong feeling that I couldn't do that. I mean, I wouldn't I don't think I would have been capable of actually, you know, sort of performing, but also I felt like I had to go to the bottom of all of these emotions. like really go as far down as it was going to take me to be able to”

Grief is a non-linear process that hits everyone differently, and it is acceptable to feel and express a variety of emotions.

“I think at the end of the day, you need to listen and trust your heart because grief comes in so many waves, so many different emotions. You're going to wake up, you're going to feel numb. You're going to wake up, you're going to feel sad, you're going to feel angry”

Grief is an essential component of the healing process that should be embraced rather than suppressed.

“I also say that in in that when we are when we are doing the work of healing and when I say work, I'm not saying like we're efforting out of healing but out of grief. What we're doing is we are making friends with grief. Grief is part of the healing process.”

Grief should not be suppressed but rather experienced so that it can eventually transform into compassion.

“if we can fully stay with it then when they move then those emotions move through us then we can stay with it in the Nate and then they shift they start to change right and then they can transfigure they can transform into something more powerful”

Grief should be held and felt as a connection to the deceased rather than something to be "gotten over" or processed away.

“I want to I don't want there to be a sadness behind my eyes like my mom had and that I saw. And um and so it's I'm highly motivated and it's it's it's an incredible thing that there is you know it will still be painful but that that the wound is the root to the gift by it's only by allowing yourself”

John Lovell claims that individuals who have lost someone should find a new mission and move forward to live their lives fully in that person's honor rather than self-destructing.

“you owe it to them to live your life to the fullest you know in their honor”

Grief can be utilized as a teacher to help navigate and find meaning in life experiences.

“I decided what if grief was something that could teach me like what if grief actually is here to become my teacher and I could learn from her and what would that make of my life and that has entered a really hard but beautiful Journey”

Engaging in self-care activities like exercise, dancing, and finding new social communities is vital for navigating the process of healing and moving forward after a significant loss.

“I tried to, you know, come up for gasps of air here and there by like going to the gym and and keeping something of my own like dancing to have like it's good to have that release that you don't really need anybody else for to do it that you can do on your own and that's just been extremely helpful.”

The speaker believes their marriage has changed for the better following their miscarriage despite the pain.

“And even though we've gone through that, I think our I think our marriage has changed for the better.”

Abby views her grief as a lifelong process and emphasizes the need to live fully and honor the life lost while carrying on.

“I think that um very early on in grieving Emerson I realized that this was like a lifelong like process.”

Grief is a persistent experience that individuals learn to live with and adapt to over time rather than something one fully moves on from.

“It's not something that ever really goes away. It's something that you learn to like live with. It's just like You grow around your grief and with your grief. You don't grow from it. It never leaves you. It's always with you. It's just how you grow with it and learning how to adapt to that.”

Grief does not disappear over time, but rather it is a lasting experience that evolves alongside life, ultimately becoming manageable.

“things do like things become okay. And then at the same time, like even after you lose someone, like they don't even remain static even though they're gone.”

Healing from deep loss does not mean forgetting the trauma, but rather learning to carry it as a part of one's life story.

“Effectively recovering from that means not forgetting it, not that it didn't happen, but learning to live with it, and learning to continue uh to live with it, and and and experience life and joy and pain and all the things that come in life afterwards, um continue to like live on.”

Grief is a non-linear, ongoing, and lifelong experience that requires personal resilience and support systems to endure.

“I tell people all the time, you know, like there's no specific order in which you grieve. You know, for me going through this film and also working on a book, it brings back every thought, every memory.”

Grief over the loss of a child does not have a set end point or finish line; it is a permanent experience that one learns to live alongside forever.

“I think people look at grief as stages or at some point it's going to end. The pain is going to end. We look at grief as this finish line. I feel like for a lot of people of I grieved for this amount of time or I was sad for this amount of time and then that's not how it works. It's it's never endin”