Give Grief A Chance

The impact of grief can affect our physical and mental health, and yet many people don’t expect physical grief symptoms.

Grief can feel very overwhelming and it can feel scary. It’s not because there’s anything wrong with you., more often than not people just don’t know how to deal with their pain.

Unresolved grief can affect your current and your future relationships. It can take you away from happiness and leave you feeling empty, hurt and stuck.

So many of us share an intense love and bond with our animal companions. So when we lose a pet it is an emotionally devastating experience.

As parents you can’t protect a child from the pain of loss. However, you can encourage them to express their feelings and create healthy coping skills that will serve them in the future.

Every major change in life can bring with it elements of grief, and grieving can be a lonely, isolating, and confusing journey.

It is very common for people to have feeling of loss and grief as their life and the life of the person they care for is slowly changed by Alzheimer’s Disease.

For parents of children with special needs, feelings of overwhelm are often fused by a profound sense of grief caused by the loss of ones hopes, dreams, and expectations.

Each grief journey is as unique as the individual that walks its path. As we grieve it is important to remember to take care of ourselves.

Grief is cumulative. If you’ve experienced multiple losses and have not dealt with them individually. You may find yourself on Grief Overload.

Miscarriage is not the most popular topic of conversation. And every pregnancy loss is different, but feelings of grief and shock are common.

What we learn in our society is not how to work with our emotions, but how to block and avoid them.

This grief is the emotional response we feel before a loss.

This is my first episode of Give Grief A Chance. Which is a project to bring grief awareness out into the open. Let’s make it ok to talk about it .