In the modern Western world we’re so obsessed with working and achieving that we’ve even tried to push the experience of loss and grief into our culture of working and achieving. I’m sure you’ve heard people talk about needing to do “grief work.” Grief work is often usually interpreted as thinking and talking about your…
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How To Release Guilt & Regret When You Didn’t Get To Say What You Wanted To Say Before They Died.
The idea of “closure” has been popular idea in the world of grief counseling in the modern Western world for some time. The traditional belief is that our relationships end when someone dies and that, in order to find peace with that ending, we ideally need to have had all the conversations we would have…
Grieving Is Learning (And How To Grieve & Learn More Easily)
There have been a lot of attempts to describe what grieving is and how it progresses. I’ve found it really useful to see grief as simply a process of learning. Sure, it’s probably the steepest learning curve you’ve ever been on, but grieving and learning to live wholeheartedly after loss is also a lot like…
How I Found Hope And Healing Through Contribution
For over 5 months after we lost Juggernaut, I couldn’t feel any interest or joy in anything. All the things that used to fascinate me and give me great joy – painting, writing, business planning, coaching, reading… I tried to go back to doing them but I was just going through the motions, trying to…
