When I started thinking about what I wanted to contribute to the Wellness Universe Guide to Self-Care: 25 Tools to Achieve Anything, I knew I wanted to write about navigating life’s big transitions. This was an area I had studied, researched, written about, coached clients through. I’d been fascinated by and immersed myself in the […]
Grief and Loss Come to Us All: My Personal Invitation to Walk My Talk Read More »
Is Grief Affecting Your Health? The short answer is, “Yes.” Grief is a stress reaction and, if you are grieving, you know that it takes a lot out of you, physically, mentally, emotionally, socially, and spiritually. Emotions are drivers of stress. Lower energy emotions like anxiety, anger, frustration, sadness, or hopelessness provide the fuel for
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Grief affects us on the physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and social levels. What’s difficult for most people are the feelings associated with grief. No one wants to feel sadness, anger, fear, guilt, loneliness, despair, frustration, resentment, bitterness, hopelessness. These feelings stem from the deep sense of abandonment we feel when we experience loss. We tend
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Research shows that the average amount of time it takes for a person to “recover” from a significant loss is five to eight years. That\’s just letting grief “run its course” or taking the “time heals all wounds” approach. It is generally accepted by professionals assisting people in their time of loss that there are
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If you’ve done any grief work you’ve heard of the five stages of grief, denial, anger, bargaining, depression, leading to acceptance. This stage model is based on the work of Elizabeth Kübler-Ross in her book On Death and Dying. She proposed a theoretical framework to describe the process one goes through when they are facing
Why the Stages of Grief are No Longer Used by Professionals Read More »
I believe that people usually have good intentions. And, when someone you care about is dealing with loss, you may not know how to respond. Most of us don’t have a very comfortable relationship with strong emotions and grief. When feelings like anger, sadness, fear, are expressed in our midst, we will tend to gloss
Empathy vs. Sympathy: How to Help Someone You Love Read More »
Growth is a spiral process, doubling back on itself, reassessing and regrouping. ~Julia Cameron I want to say something about the shape of grief. Grief is not linear. It’s not a rectangle, either. It doesn\’t behave itself and stay within a neat box of “stages.” You don\’t go “through” it like passing through another country
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“When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That’s one of the great feelings – to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies
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