Two Dozen Images from "Aurora Bunny: Shedding Her Façade; Stripping Her Grief”
Added 2024-07-29 01:26:00 +0000 UTCFull set available here: https://hal.red/02GfLS0A
Bereavement is the name given to having experienced a significant loss, whether the loss is due to death or some other trauma. As most who’ve been bereaved can testify, the experience is often compounded by our society’s tendency to “keep it to yourself.” We seldom see someone else grieve and mourn because what little they’ve seen of loss has been muffled by the cocoon of “being strong for the children,” “never letting them see me cry,” and the belief that it’s best to “get over it and get on with our lives.”
The analogy that Aurora Bunny plays out for us here, though, follows the best practices recommended by professional grief counselors. Shed that white-sheath, the façade that everything is bright, cheerful, and shiny despite our loss. Only by baring the darkness of our grief (our specific features still visible, but masked and muted by the experience) can we then begin to strip away some of the pieces. The activities of mourning require us to be authentic, transparent, and vulnerable – if only with ourselves (although it works better for most of us to have someone to at least nod in agreement, ask helpful and clarifying questions, or just answer the door and/or phone while we give ourselves a “grief appointment”).
As you page through the images in this set, let yourself consider how you’ve approached your own bereavement, grief, and mourning, and in what ways Aurora Bunny’s analogy might inspire, inform, and influence your path up the (often cold, hard, and uneven) stairway to dealing with loss more openly.
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