How to Sit in the Pain of Loss and Accept It without Judgment

Angie Grimes
Jul 28, 2017 · 6 min read

Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart so that fresh green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their

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Angie Grimes

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Angie Grimes, also known as Muse Maven, is a Spiritual Architect teaching individuals to awaken and accept the vastness of their souls calling.

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