Wounds
"It has been said, 'time heals all wounds'. I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone." -Rose Kennedy I am a visual learner. I am a visual thinker. Sometimes I think this is what makes me a good teacher. I can take something abstract or inconceivable and turn it into a picture to help people understand it better. So when my children and I first began our journey through grief, I tried to put it into a picture for them. I felt like they didn't understand the road ahead. I thought they believed the terrible heaviness of the initial tragedy was how they would feel forever, and I wanted to give them hope. I told them our grief was like a big wound. That is was similar to a cut or scrape like you get from a bad bike accident. It hurts. It hurts terribly. You can't put your covers on it at night because it is so painful. Some