As we continue with our theme of Yield to Your Grief Journey, I want to talk about the word yield. The etymology of the word yield is Old English: "to pay, pay for; reward, render; worship, serve, sacrifice to." Using those meanings gives yield to your grief journey a whole new twist. Pay for your grief journey, reward your grief journey, serve your grief journey, and even worship your grief journey. Those phrases feel like a kinder way to treat our grief. Perhaps that feels too kind to you. Grief can be rough and its hard to feel kind towards it. At one grief education and support gathering, I used the phrase embrace your grief. One woman approached me later and said, Embrace is way too kind of a word to use with grief. I said, How about allow? She said that felt better and more doable. Whatever youre feeling is where you are. It is okay to start there.