When someone you love is dying, or when they are already gone, the mind can become cruel. It replays moments, searches for mistakes, and asks impossible questions. Did I say enough? Did I do enough? Should I have noticed sooner, stayed longer, chosen differently? Grief often speaks in the language of guilt, even when loveContinue reading “Repeat after me: I did the best I could.”
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The Nanny McPhee Philosophy: The Tender, Invisible Heart of a Dynamic Journey
In the opening scenes of the film Nanny McPhee, we enter a home fractured by loss. The Brown family is drowning in the wake of their mother’s death. The father is consumed by panic, and the children are acting out with wild, chaotic behavior—a desperate, messy cry for the grief support they don’t know howContinue reading “The Nanny McPhee Philosophy: The Tender, Invisible Heart of a Dynamic Journey”