“The bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts […]
IN PREVIOUS POSTS in this series, we’ve discussed and journaled about the different types of grief, how grief manifests in different ways in our lives, the many emotions associated with grief, and how to recognize and deal specifically with numbness, loneliness, and guilt. I’d like to re-emphasize here that though […]
AS IF LOSS ISN’T ENOUGH by itself, another painful emotion that grief awakens and amplifies is guilt. Guilt that accompanies grief can come in several forms and each is not exclusive, meaning you may experience more than one kind of guilt at once. Telling yourself (or someone else telling you) […]
ONE OF THE ASPECTS of grief we don’t often talk about is the great sense of loneliness that can descend upon you, even when you are surrounded by supportive people. No one seems to understand what you are going through, or their responses seem inappropriate or cold. You begin to […]
“There is a level of grief so deep that it stops resembling grief at all. The pain becomes so severe that the body can no longer feel it. The grief cauterizes itself, scars over, prevents inflated feeling. Such numbness is a kind of mercy.” ― Elizabeth Gilbert IT’S NORMAL — […]
WE ASSOCIATE MANY different emotions with grief — from anger to guilt, denial to sadness and despair, and numbness to excruciating sensitivity. According to a Psychology Today article by Ralph Ryback, M.D., “Part of the reason that our experience of grief is so painful is because we must learn how […]
Read Part 1 of this series here: Journaling Through Grief – Introduction GRIEF IS EXPERIENCED and manifests itself in a different way for each person — and even different ways at different times within each person. Everyone’s experience of grief is unique, but we share this aspect of it: grief […]
GRIEF IS as much a part of life as all other emotions. The opposite of joy, grief is a particular kind of sorrow; it’s an emotional anguish so deep that it can seem bottomless. And when you’re in the middle of that bottomless despair, it can feel like there is […]
