Growing Through Grief
Helping You Through Rough Waters
Remembering Our Lost Loved Ones and Creating New Traditions
The holidays can magnify the absence of familiar faces or routines if you have lost a loved one. It’s a time that can be exhausting but one also that you can create anew with a mix of past traditions and remembrances to bring the spirit of your loved one into the...
Transforming Loss into Growth: Finding Meaning and Purpose
Transforming loss into growth is a deeply personal journey that allows a griever to reshape life in ways that honor both the loss and an ongoing potential for growth. This transformation doesn’t erase the pain of loss; rather, it integrates it, allowing you to draw...
After Hurricane Helene
“When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in.” - Haruki Murakami, I’m still in a haze from Hurricane Helene. I live on the gulf coast of Florida and while I sustained minimal damage comparatively speaking, I’m so fatigued. We sustained...
Emotions-Like A Ball of Rubber Bands
The analogy of untangling a ball of rubber bands is one that I use often when I talk about the work of grief recovery. The work of grief recovery and processing the emotions of loss can be compared to de-tangling a ball of rubber bands in several ways: 1) ...
The Effects of Grief On Your Body
Understanding the connection between grief and the effects on the physical body is important. Self-care often goes on to the back burner in the midst of the heavy emotional experience of loss but you can do some simple things to stay as healthy as possible through...
Grief and Creativity
People sometimes ask me what "grief recovery" means. In my work with the Grief Recovery Method we talk about unresolved grief being related to undelivered communications from unmet hopes, dreams, and expectations. It can also be...
Intangible Losses Are Cause for Grief
“I can’t be grieving. No one died.” That’s a statement I hear a lot. Society equates grief to death and divorce only. Sadly, that limited definition can keep people stuck in a world of pain when there is a solution. Some losses are concrete like death, divorce and pet...
Grief is Normal and Natural – Self-Compassion is Key
Let’s face it – the emotions of loss can be completely overwhelming and make it hard to focus at work. One of the things I hear so often from my clients is that they feel like if they allow themselves to feel what they are feeling, they may not rebound or stop crying....
5 Tips to Create New Holidays After Loss
The holidays can magnify the absence of familiar faces or routines. Consider creating new traditions that honor the past while embracing the present. Here are some ideas which may help you with some of those things you might find challenging. Be honest with yourself...
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