Experiencing Grief
What are normal reactions to pain and suffering? Find out more with this free activity about how we all experience grief differently.
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We Grieve is Here For You
Most of us live our lives at a breakneck pace, traveling the highway of life at top speed. When we lose someone close our life comes to a screeching halt. For a moment, people around us may stop and surround us with love and compassion. But very quickly they are back on the highway moving at top speed, and we are left reeling from the shock, trying to make sense of the huge changes we are experiencing. With life-changing loss we realize we quickly run out of helpful resources and people to talk to about our grief.
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You May Not Know
You may not know… You don’t “get over” a significant loss. It takes a long time to feel normal again. No one can tell you how to grieve. Healthy grieving requires the release of emotional pain. Grief changes you and your priorities. You may feel like isolating and being alone. Grieving is not forgetting but remembering in a new way.…
Anger & the Loss of a Child
Feelings of anger will be inescapable with the loss of a child. You cannot avoid being angry at some level but identifying the source of the anger will go a long way in helping you unpack and find a healthy expression for it. Your anger may be a below-the-surface, low boil frustration or resentment rarely surfacing but never going away,…
Coping with Worry During Grief
Grief is not a simple emotion. It is an extremely complex mix of many different emotions, all of which seem to come at us at the same time. When someone very dear to us has died, we grapple simultaneously with intense feelings of sadness, nagging regrets and anger, fear and wonder about the meaning of life, and our own mortality,…
How to Help a Loved One with Financial Issues Following a Spouse’s Death
How to Help a Loved One with Financial Issues Following a Spouse's Death - Cheryl Conklin How to Help a Loved One with Financial Issues Following a Spouse's Death At We Grieve, we know the death of a spouse is never easy, as the event marks the loss of an intimate relationship. If you have a senior loved…
Practical Steps Toward Healthy Healing
There is no sugar-coating the fact that death is a tragic event. A range of emotions can flood in, and if you don't have people around you sharing in your grief, you can feel isolated and lonely. Nonetheless, there is a way to get through the sadness and find joy again. It begins with allowing yourself to process your…
Missing My Reflection
Loss reminds us of the power held by significant people in our lives. When our loved one dies, we are overcome with emotion. We feel the deep sadness of loneliness engulf us like an impenetrable fog, and we have trouble imagining a future without our person. For those people with considerable impact on our life, there is an even deeper…
Control Exercise
Worry is taking responsibility for something over which you have no control. The very act of separating the elements in a situation you can control from those you cannot relieves stress. Once you have identified the items you cannot control, make a sincere effort to let them go. The list of items you can control becomes your “to-do” list. Download…
The Impact of Grief on Marriage
Initially drawn together by the shock and pain of loss, couples can find themselves disconnecting as the grief journey progresses. The divorce rate is high for couples who experience the loss of a child. There are reasons for this and ways to address your grief so as not to lose your marriage relationship in the process. We all grieve differently…
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Connect with Others
Value of a community for help with grief
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You don’t have to suffer alone
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We find strength in the care and concern of others
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The value of a companion when you’re experiencing emotional pain cannot be overestimated
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No one can take the pain away, but compassionate friends can help us carry it, and find meaning in the suffering
