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Week 2
The journey to begin to learn a way of living without my soulmate was not fast or easy. Taking 2-3 steps forward to seeing some good things then a step sliding back into sadness. And slowly realizing that there was a turn-around to more good days than bad, It was okay to accept the sadness but also to rejoice in the good memories. I began an album of memories of my journey without my love which soon included pages of memories of our lives together. The pages in the album let me see the gradual shift from overwhelming sadness to a life of finding some good and happiness not only in memories but also in living each day. My phoenix was finding that I was beginning to accept both sadness and joy as the days passed and she would rise to live with both.