A Grieving Mother's Heart...

From the Kitchen of: A Grieving Mother’s Heart

Recipe: Raw Grief

Serves: One

Ingredients:

     1 heaping cup of disbelief

     1 tablespoon reluctance to say goodbye

     16 ounces excruciating pain

     3 cups brutal sadness

     2 tablespoons confusion (substitute questioning)

     ½ cup constant obsessing

     8 ounces anger (substitute misunderstood)

     2 teaspoons agonizing guilt

     ¾ cup embarrassment

     1 quart loneliness

     Dash of untimely and needless

Directions:

Preheat oven to 1123 degrees.

In a small bowl, mix disbelief with reluctance to say goodbye. Next, trim platitudes from excruciating pain and discard. Use mixture to coat pain. Cook in scalding cast iron skillet until blackened. Set aside. Fill large pot with tears and bring to a boil. Lower heat; pour brutal sadness into pot and cover. Allow to simmer for days. When sadness is numb, remove from heat and drain tears from pot. Stir confusion and constant obsessing into sadness and set aside. Use meat mallet to pound anger until tender. Cut into bite size pieces. Fry in pan over high heat with agonizing guilt and embarrassment. When anger turns red, remove pan from heat. To assemble, spread pain into bottom of baking dish. Layer on the sadness mixture, then cover with anger, guilt and embarrassment. Top with loneliness. Season with untimely and needless. Place in oven and bake until loneliness turns to intense longing. Let sit for a lifetime.

Notes: Pairs well with absolute fear

Best served smothered in love and compassion (may need assistance)

Garnish with a sense of peace

*From the graduate classroom of Arizona State University’s Dr. Joanne Cacciatore and the creative grief expression project of SWG591 Trauma and Death Counseling. This course is part of the Graduate Certificate Program in Trauma and Bereavement. All rights reserved.