I miss my grandmother all the time but this week is especially hard- she passed away the first week of January in 2017. She used to always tell me she’d come back and haunt me (and we’d laugh and laugh). I wrote some words about it below.
One day this fall I was feeling several of the emotions listed below and realized that indulging in the feelings perpetuated more of them. Indulging in anger made me feel more angry, indulging in anxiety and insecurity and jealousy made me feel more anxious, insecure and jealous. But if I focused on radically loving myself and others around me, the negative feelings started to dissipate. So I scribbled this down on a sticky note and it’s been stuck to my desk drawer ever since. It’s my mantra going into 2022.
Happiest New Year to you and your loved ones,
Hannah