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Now pain vs. later pain
It’s the same.
This article is cross-posted from my weekly newsletter, The Sunday Soother, a newsletter about clarity, intention, and useful tips for creating more meaning in your life that goes out every Sunday morning. Subscribe here. I am also a coach who works with sensitive people so they can stop second-guessing, make decisions confidently and live the life they’ve always dreamed of. You can learn more about working with me here.
On pain now or later.
I wrote the below on Wednesday, closed my laptop, went to sit with my grandmother, and an hour later, with me, my mother, and her longtime beloved aide Agatha by her side, she passed quietly. This newsletter is dedicated to Margaret Jeanetta Hoy Dickman.
Happy Sunday, Soothers. Thank you for all your kind words about my grandmother. We are doing well here and she seems comfortable and many days ago went into a state of unconsciousness, though she’ll wake from time to time, but she is not really there and doesn’t really see us. I have been learning a lot about the stages of dying which is giving me some comfort as I understand the natural process and stages of active dying on which she has embarked.
I’ve always been a learner and student. In times of emotional distress or confusion, I turn to books, resources, frameworks to help me…
