Do you have a book with all of this in it. It stops us from asking for help when we need it. I didn’t think I could. I’m not strong, I’m a jelly most of the time, I just hang out with someone that makes the hard stuff look really easy!I haven’t done well.
Most days in the early years of grief post-loss the thought of not waking up in the morning would have been a welcome relief from the horrific pain I was experiencing. No. Try not to break me baby you're so strong. Thank you. I now know there isn’t one. You mightn't think so but I know, you're so strong. I have heard too many bereaved people being told that ‘you need to be strong for…’ when, as you say, a better way of expressing this would be ‘how can we support each other through this?’ The gender stereotypes of perceived strength or lack of, are also incredibly unhelpful. When “you’re so strong” is offered like a cliche, it can be really off-putting. “I couldn’t do what you’ve done.” They’re compliments I know, but at least in my case, undeserved, and most definitely untrue. Thank you for being there. by Catrin Harland-Davies. She spent 10 days in hospital post birth. Father is so handsome!” Mag smiled. I was struggling to survive.
I worked too hard, very long hours – which probationer didn’t/doesn’t? You're so sexy You're so strong Ooh, you turn me on You're so sexy You're so strong You turn me on You're so classy You got style Mona Lisa couldn't match your smile Being separated from him was unbearable, like torture. It’s intended to be (and perhaps often is) very affirming – effectively a way of saying “I don’t think I could cope half as well as you are, with what you’re going through.”But it’s a phrase that often causes more damage than we realise. You wonder how much more you can take.
Listen to You're So Strong by Mental As Anything, 4,315 Shazams, featuring on Aussie Essentials, and New Wave Deep Cuts Apple Music playlists. she was stunned. “You’re so strong!” It’s a phrase that many people hear, when they’re struggling through difficult times. One of the loveliest compliments I ever received was when one of the tutors on a pastoral training course said to me ‘You have a quiet strength.’Very well said, Cat! We need more of that, please.That friend who you think is “so strong,” going through what you “could never imagine” and “doing so well”— or so you think— please check on him or her and ask how are you It matters more than you know.
And they get praised – “You’re so strong.” And they feel the pressure to be strong – to cope, to bear up, to earn the praise.This can be hardest for those whom we particularly expect to be strong, because of their gender, age, or role.
Here I am a decade later. She underwent open heart surgery at 12 weeks old, and she taught herself to breastfeed after 5 months being fed through NG tube.What I am, is very, very, lucky. And I really didn’t care to find out. I don’t talk about my grief because no one really wants to hear about it, no one wants to listen or be put in the position of trying to comfort me. !Thank you for your blog! Or I don’t know how I’m going to make it through the next five minutes, the next hour, the next day.People often say “you’re so strong!!
I honestly didn’t know if I’d survive the pain of living without him.
Or leadership which admits to vulnerability, asks for help, admits mistakes, says ‘sorry’ where appropriate, and asks others to pray for us?Of course, there will be times when we have to be strong, to do the things that need to be done, to support the people that need to be supported. I recently came across a widow who doesn’t like the euphemism ‘lost’. and maybe hearing it – as much as it sometimes sucks – is what keeps me going! I take things to heart, I have wobbles in confidence and I worry about the future. Lucy has done all of the hard work! I’d throw it right in the pile of other cliches and platitudes. I could not have survived without my strong faith in God.Hi Angela this is so unbelievably true and I thank you for writing it.