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General Grief & Loss

Practical Steps Toward Healthy Healing

There is no sugar-coating the fact that death is a tragic event. A range of emotions can flood in, and if you don't have people around you sharing in your grief, you can feel isolated and lonely. Nonetheless, there is a way to get through the sadness and find joy again. It begins with allowing yourself to process your pain…
Karl
February 3, 2022
General Grief & Loss

Coping Strategies that Work

“You don’t heal from the loss of a loved one because time passes, you heal because of what you do with that time.” ~ Carol Crandell COPING STRATEGIES THAT WORK Self-Care • Exercise – dance, run, walk, hike, sign up for an exercise class. • Allow time off – take time off from your routine, house, job, or even from…
Karl
May 3, 2021
General Grief & Loss

Control Exercise

Worry is taking responsibility for something over which you have no control. The very act of separating the elements in a situation you can control from those you cannot relieves stress. Once you have identified the items you cannot control, make a sincere effort to let them go. The list of items you can control becomes your “to-do” list. Download…
Karl
April 20, 2021
General Grief & Loss

You May Not Know

You may not know… You don’t “get over” a significant loss. It takes a long time to feel normal again. No one can tell you how to grieve. Healthy grieving requires the release of emotional pain. Grief changes you and your priorities. You may feel like isolating and being alone. Grieving is not forgetting but remembering in a new way.…
Karl
March 22, 2021
General Grief & LossResources

Coping with Worry During Grief

Grief is not a simple emotion. It is an extremely complex mix of many different emotions, all of which seem to come at us at the same time. When someone very dear to us has died, we grapple simultaneously with intense feelings of sadness, nagging regrets and anger, fear and wonder about the meaning of life, and our own mortality,…
Karl
March 15, 2021
Helping a Grieving Person
General Grief & Loss

Helping a Grieving Person

It is not possible for you to “fix” a person’s loss. Refuse to think of your role as “making it all better”. Rather, think of your role as a companion coming alongside a grieving person to help carry their pain.
Karl
January 25, 2021
Physical Grief
General Grief & Loss

Physical Grief

To better understand what is happening to us both emotionally and physically when we are grieving, it is helpful for us to know a little more about how our bodies function under stress.
Karl
January 25, 2021