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A child who cannot bear the noise, the lights and the scratchy jumper all day will be hard to be around by the afternoon. That child usually gets described as badly behaved rather than as overwhelmed.
Once a child is understood to be choosing it, everything that follows is punishment, the arousal climbs, and the sensory difficulty gets worse. That…
When grief rises like a wave, let it come and let it pass. Do not brace against it or push it down.
Grief arrives in waves, not a straight line. A wave allowed to rise will also fall. Fighting it is what makes it last.
Let yourself weep. Tears over someone you love are not a failure of faith or of strength.
Crying is not the opposite of patience. It is the body grieving honestly, and it passes more cleanly when it is not shamed.
Take the sorrow you cannot say to anyone else and pour it out to God, in your own plain words.
You do not have to hold it alone or find the right phrase. Say the raw thing to the One who already knows it.
Notice where the fear sits in your body, the chest, the throat, the gut, and breathe gently toward it.
The body remembers what words forget. Meeting the sensation with breath, not judgement, begins to loosen it.
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