The act of communicating your personal experiences to others to help you reflect, heal, and connect. It involves expressing your experiences, which can be a powerful tool for catharsis, gaining clarity, and finding personal growth. It also fosters connections with others by inspiring them, creating a sense of belonging, and showing them they are not alone. 

What are the benefits ?

Reduces isolation; sharing what grieves allows you to connect with others who understand, making you feel less alone in your pain.

Such sharing provides validation.

Having your feelings acknowledged and witnessed by others can be a powerful comfort and validation that you are not “crazy” for feeling the way you do.

• Processes emotions: Talking about your grief helps you to process your feelings and integrate the loss into your life.
  
• Honors the deceased: Sharing stories and memories keeps the spirit of the person alive and allows you to reconnect with love rather than just pain.
  
• Offers a path forward: Sharing your grief can transform a feeling of being trapped into a path forward, helping you find positivity and see a future again. 
  
  People who share their stories on Lotts More From The Heart find a safe space to speak from the heart to speak genuinely about how they feel and to say not just what they think they “should” say.

In addition to sharing, listening to other people’s stories can provide comfort and a sense of shared humanity, reinforcing that you are not alone in your struggle.

Remember to take care of your physical and emotional needs, such as eating and sleeping well, and managing stress. 

The Power of Healing Through Connection

There’s something sacred about the moment we begin to tell our story. Not the polished version we prepare for others—but the raw, trembling truth that lives beneath the surface of our smiles.

When we tell the story of our loss, we do more than share what happened—we invite our hearts to begin the work of acceptance and understanding. Storytelling gives shape to pain that otherwise feels formless. It allows the chaos within us to find rhythm, and the silence that grief often brings a voice.

In the sharing, we discover that our story is deeply personal—uniquely ours—yet somehow, mysteriously, it resonates with others. Tears become a common language. Heads go nodding in recognition, not because our losses are the same, but because the ache is familiar. That’s the miracle of storytelling: it turns isolation into connection, and sorrow into solidarity.

Each time we speak our story, we move one step or two along our journey through. Each time we listen to another’s, we hold holy space for healing to happen.

So, tell it again—not to relive the pain, but to release it. Tell it until the grief softens, until the memory glows warmly instead of stinging our heart. Tell it until the story becomes less about what was lost and more about what love has left to carry on.

Because when we tell our stories from the heart, we find that grief is not the end of the story—it’s the continuation of life, love, courage, compassion, and hope.

Applying a “Romans 12 Kind of Love” to Sharing Your Grief there is “Rejoicing with those who rejoice; mourning with those who mourn.” — Romans 12:15 (NIV)

There’s a kind of love that isn’t just spoken — it’s lived.

It’s the kind of love that shows up when words fall short. The kind that sits quietly beside you when your world has fallen apart, not to fix you, but to remind you that you are not alone. That’s the Romans 12 kind of love — love that listens, comforts, and bears the weight of another’s sorrow.

Turning Grief Into Hope and Purpose

True love, the Christ-like kind, doesn’t rush grief. It doesn’t tell you to move on or smile through it. Instead, it enters the valley with you, believing that healing begins when pain is shared. In community, grief becomes lighter. In compassion, hearts begin to mend.

When we dare to share our stories — our brokenness, our questions, our healing — something sacred happens. Walls fall. Hope rises. And the same comfort God has given us begins to flow through us to others. (2 Corinthians 1:3–4)

You see, grief loses its power to isolate when it is spoken out loud in love. Every tear, every word, every memory shared becomes part of God’s beautiful work of restoration — turning mourning into ministry, sorrow into strength, and wounds into wisdom.

So today, love like Romans 12 calls you to love:
Sit beside someone who’s hurting.
Open your heart and share your story.
Let love do the healing work that only love can do.

Because love that bears grief together… is the love that leads to healing.
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