I saw an instagram post by a Dr. Zelena, she shared this and I thought it was worth resharing:

“C.S. Lewis once wrote, “No one ever told me that grief felt so much like fear”.

And he was right. Grief is fear.

It’s the fear of a future that no longer exists. The fear of forgetting. The fear of remembering too much. The fear that if you stop hurting, you stop loving.

Grief highjacks your nervous system like fear does.

The racing heart. The tight chest. The stomach in knots. The sudden, suffocating waves that come out of nowhere.

It makes you want to run, to hide, to disappear. Because grief doesn’t just live in the mind-it roots itself in the body.

It lodges in your bones, lingers in your breath, echoes in the spaces they once filled.

But here’s the difference:

Fear is about what might happen.

Grief is about what already has.

There’s no fixing it. No preventing it. No going back.

Just the quiet, aching truth of what was and what will never be again.

And yet— grief is evidence.

Evidence that something, someone once took up space in your soul so deeply that their absence is an open wound.

Grief is not just the echo of love- it’s the aftershock of meaning.

A testament to the weight of what was lost. A proof of life, of connection, of something that mattered beyond words.

Maybe, just maybe, the only way through it is to let the meaning shape what comes next.

To carry it forward, not as a burden, but as a compass.

Because while grief may be fear, it is also love with nowhere to go-until we find courage to give it new direction.”