Riley Keoughis keeping her late brother Benjamin’s memory alive, one year after his death.
“A year ago this morning was the last time I got to see you,” Riley wrote with the photo. “I didn’t hug you properly because I thought you had COVID. I wish I’d hugged you properly. I miss you every day.”
She recently opened up toInStyleaboutgrieving Benjamin’s deathas she approaches one year since their family’s tragic loss. “I’m really consciously trying to be present, and not use anything as any kind of escape, and be cognizant of when I’m doing that,” Riley said.
“I’m just generally trying to be grateful for everything at the moment, trying to operate in love, and keep my heart open, and give and receive love,” she continued. “And not in a woo-woo way, because I definitely have hard days, and all kinds of pain and suffering and all that.
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“But I think when you realize that’s part of it, and your expectation isn’t to just be feeling joy, that’s been a real shift for me in finding those moments and things to smile about,” the actress added.
Riley previously revealed that shecompleted a death doula training course, which helped her process some of her grief. “We are taught that it’s a morbid subject to talk about. Or we’re so afraid of it that we’re unable to talk about it… then of course it happens to us, and we are very ill prepared,” she wrote.
“I think it’s so important to be educated on conscious dying and death the way we educate ourselves on birth and conscious birthing,” Riley noted. “We prepare ourselves so rigorously for the entrance and have no preparation for our exit. So I’m so grateful for this community and to be able to contribute what I can.”
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TheZolaactress has paid tribute to her brother several times over the past year, includinggetting a tattoo in his honor. “Mornings are the hardest. I forget you’re gone. I can’t cry because of the fear that I will never stop. A pain that’s new to me,” shewrote in a tributeshortly after Benjamin’s death.
Lisa Marie Presley and her four children, Riley Keough, Benjamin Keough, Finley Lockwood and Harper Lockwood.Lisa Marie Presley/Instagram
“I hope you give me the strength to eat. I hope you’re cradled in love. I hope you feel my love. I hope you feel god. You are god. I can’t believe you’ve left me. Not you sweet Ben Ben. Anyone but you. I guess this is true heartbreak. I hope we meet again,” she shared.
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source: people.com
