When trauma or loss happens are you the one who everyone leans on? Today we are going to talk about how bearing the weight of others’ pain and always being strong for others can stunt your own self-healing. If you are the one who...
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All of us who grieve long to have someone to talk to who is skilled at empathetic listening. What is empathetic listening you ask? An empathetic listener is someone who hears conversation authentically. This person will really try to understand...
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There is something about music or poetry that expresses feelings that we struggle to put words to. Grief reaches into the deep places in us and hides there. Sometimes it takes reading that poem to even recognize that it has settled in. Have...
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Grief and loss is a different experience for everyone. When talking about grief in children it can present itself in a variety of ways. The age of the child can contribute to an even wider range of ways that grief manifests itself. Processing...
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Humans experience grief when there is loss of any kind, including death. The “stages of grief” have been studied and the order in which we grieve has been outlined. The truth is that we all grieve differently regardless of the “5 stages”. When...
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Feeling Alone in Healing Grief Grief healing can be a very lonely place. One of the most dangerous things to get caught up in when trying to heal grief is isolation. Not only just to be grieving alone, but to feel as though nobody understands you...
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Have you ever wanted to just get away? Finding yourself stuck in grief? Maybe a lot of time has passed since a loved one died but you are still finding it hard to process your grief. Your grief story is unique to you. Grief is fluid, it...
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Being alone and grieving is different than being alone in your grief. How do you know the difference? Determining when being alone during a period of grief is healthy or harmful is important. Humans were made for connection. Introverts...
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Many services that were readily available to us have been taken away during the pandemic because they are not deemed “essential”. One of those things has been in person therapy sessions. It is a relief that many therapists have simply gone...
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We are living in a time right now that will be written down in history books for future generations to look back on. From a global pandemic to rioting, protesting and a worldwide cry for racial equality and justice. History is being written as...
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Pandemic Life Lessons to Live By Life took a pretty abrupt turn for most of us over the past 6 weeks or so. The Coronavirus, covid-19 has created a global pandemic. We have been forced to slow down a little. Teaching our children home school...
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Getting “Vital Papers” in Order Have you ever needed vital papers, such as a birth certificate and can’t seem to remember where you filed them? I can picture it now, last second running around trying to find the documents, “thinking, I...
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