The holiday season used to trigger my sugar addiction. I used to start binging on sugar with Thanksgiving pie, picking up steam through the holiday cookie exchanges, and reveling in gift candy boxes. I hovered around dessert tables at holiday parties, trying one of everything, and refilling my plate with all my favorites. By January, […]
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How Empathic People are Affected with Jennifer Moore The Wellness Universe supports your emotional wellness and mental health wellness journey. In March 2022 an event was dedicated to serving you with wellness experts, information, and self-care tools to get you through these extraordinary times of stress, grief, loss, anxiety, and fear. Today we are featuring
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Seven months ago, my husband died unexpectedly. My entire world collapsed in on itself when that happened. I’ve known heartache and grief before, but never to this extent. Earlier this year I wrote about this for the book, Wellness Universe Guide to Self-Care: 25 Tools to Achieve Anything. Now, that I have had some time
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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
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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
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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
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Grief is deep sorrow. It is deeply emotional. Other words that come to mind are sadness, pain, loss, anguish, suffering, heartache, and despair. Grief also is universal, which means everyone everywhere experiences it. Most of us are not given the skills to deal with grief when it shows up in our lives. In fact, we
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