Elizabeth Gilbert Explains Grief in the Best Possible Way.

Six months after losing Rayya—her partner, best friend, and soul mate—Elizabeth Gilbert is speaking up about grief.

In a post she shared on Instagram, Gilbert explains what she’s learned about grief and how she handles it.

When people ask her how she’s doing, she says that it depends on the day—on the moment. Sometimes she’s good, and at other times she’s not.

Then she continues with the words that strike me the most. She says:

“I have learned that Grief is a force of energy that cannot be controlled or predicted. It comes and goes on its own schedule. Grief does not obey your plans, or your wishes. Grief will do whatever it wants to you, whenever it wants to. In that regard, Grief has a lot in common with Love. The only way that I can ‘handle’ Grief, then, is the same way that I ‘handle’ Love—by not ‘handling’ it. By bowing down before its power, in complete humility.”

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