Unpacking Grief

Grieving people need to be heard, not fixed.❤️

Often common life experiences are not seen as losses or grieving events. While death and divorce are obvious losses, so are the death of a pet, moving, starting school, marriage, graduation, end of addictions, health changes, retirement, financial changes (positive or negative), holidays, legal problems, and empty nest to name just a few. Acknowledge it - feel the feelings, sit with it, cry, talk about it, reach out. Don't stuff it, eat it, drink it, tattoo it, drug it or shop it away. Unresolved grief can have a long-term, unhealthy, impact on your capacity for happiness and well being. You must feel it to heal it.