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10 Tips for Coping With Grief and Loss
Grief is an incredibly agonising human experience but also a natural reaction to loss. In life it is almost inevitable that we will experience grief and loss. Although it is a painful experience, grief is also a process that gives us strength to take on the challenges we face in life...
Five Myths of Grief That Lead to Unnecessary Suffering
Grief is a natural response to the loss of something valued. Myths are falsehoods parading as gospel truths. Combined they lead to much excessive emotional and physical pain when mourning...
Grief Counceling
The one thing that we can be sure of in this life is death. No matter how healthy we are, or the lifestyle that we live, we will all die at some point. Just as inevitable as this is, we will all face losing someone that we love someday as well...
Healthy Grieving Techniques: How to Move Through the Grief Process to Resolution
The greater the love you feel for someone or the greater the emotional investment in a given situation, the greater the sense of loss you feel when death, transition or tragedy occurs...
How to Deal With Grief Triggers Long After the Death of a Loved One
Have you been having a good day many months after the death of your loved one and when watching television, see a particular scene or hear a statement, and suddenly you feel the return of sadness and anxiety?...
Stages of the Grief Process: How We Get Stuck and How to Let Go
Grieving is an act of love. It begins when someone or something you love is lost, and the stronger the love the greater the grief. The act of grieving honors you and the significance of your loss...
Relationship Advice - Our Dog Died Today: Grief Together
Our 14 year old golden retriever, Rudy, died today. My wife, Pam, and I are grief stricken. Rudy was with us for more than half our married life. He was our hiking partner, our companion every day, our friend.
Thankfully, we have each other in our grief. And, we have had many grieving experiences together already. We've had some practice in how to do it...
Why Grief Lingers on and on
Grief and grieving is inevitable because we choose to love. And it can be argued that it lingers on and on because we refuse to learn to love in separation and complete a primary task: acceptance of the loss and the many changes demanded...
Learn the Biggest Lesson Grief and Loss Offers
The death of a loved one and the grief that follows teach many lessons. Perhaps the most important one is that pain is the sign to take a new road in life. This is a double barreled lesson. First, we have to decide to do some things we have not thought of previously—or ever attempted before. And secondly, of equal importance, the key to advancement into our new world (that is, our adaptation to the loss) is the necessity to take action...