What you believe about grief could be getting in the way of your healing

Most of us do not have models of healthy grief. All we know is what we’ve seen and experienced, what we’ve taken from the journeys of other grievers about how grief is done.

Naila FrancisJanuary 23, 2021grief and loss, grief care, grief journey, grieving, grief and healing, coping with grief, sadness, sorrow, space for griefComment

Heather Archer: be courageous enough to revisit your pain

“Our bodies know what we need and we need to cultivate a culture in which it's OK to listen to the needs of your body.” - Heather Archer

Crystal Augustono: to heal is to fall in love with ourselves again

“Healing is for EVERYONE, but I feel that right now, BIPOC need it more than ever.. So right now, I’m asking myself and others, how can I hold space for myself and other women of color in this climate of chaos?” - Crystal Augustono

How do you know you’re grieving? Here’s a little check-in

We all respond differently to grief. But the key part is to respond — in a way that honors our true feelings and experience, that makes room to process and move through the layers. That allows us to tune into our bodies and all they’re holding.

Without public grief rituals, the personal holds meaning, too

A 2014 study published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology found that the most emotionally resilient mourners were the ones who turned to ritual in the aftermath of their loss. But while we may traditionally think of mourning rituals as public expressions of grief, the study found that in most cases, those rituals were private — small acts that helped the bereaved connect to their loved ones in moving and powerful ways.

Compassionate Support for Coping with Grief: Grief Blog and Counseling

Often it is because we have held great pain that we are able to embrace great joy when it arrives — to take both, the aching sadness, the sweetest pleasure, and find in them fertile ground for the refashioning of our lives.