Grief and mental health often go hand in hand. May is mental health awareness month. Grief can have a big impact on your mental health. Grief can be exhausting, emotional and can cause moments of anxiety and depression. Unprocessed grief and...
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Grief, trauma and gut health are all connected. At some point in life we all experience some sort of trauma. The death of a loved one is just one example. When there is trauma in our lives we experience grief. With grief and trauma there is the...
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Grieving as a single parent…..We all experience loss at some point in life. Loss doesn’t discriminate. It doesn’t matter if you have already been struggling in life. Grief and loss doesn’t skip over you because you are already at your breaking...
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Understanding your window of tolerance to help manage grief is an important part of your emotional health. When you are operating within your window of tolerance you could say you are in a serene state. More specifically you are feeling...
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Eating well for grief support. Being disciplined about taking care of ourselves can be a challenge any time but it can be even harder while grieving. Everyone responds to grief differently. One common area that is affected is diet. There are two...
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May was mental health awareness month. Wow, don’t we all need a couple more months to bring attention to the importance of mental health? This year has been like no other, “unprecedented” in fact. So many changes, so much anxiety, fear and...
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What is meditation? Meditation for Grief can be a great way to aid in the healing process. According to wikipedia, “Meditation is a practice where an individual uses a technique such as mindfulness or focusing the mind on a particular...
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When a loved one dies, it is traumatic. Trauma can often trigger what psychologists call a loose mind. A loose mind is when your thoughts run wild and you can not focus on one. These thoughts are often negative and create doubt, anxiety and lack...
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It may seem impossible, but here are some helpful hints to find the joy in Christmas even while you’re grieving. Joy and grief can coexist. Each moment of each day has something new within it and when a person is grieving it is okay to feel...
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Someone once told me, think of Dementia as a bicycle wheel. There are many spokes on that wheel, some of them are, Alzheimer’s disease, Lewie body disease, neurovascular disease, etc. Dementia is the broad term to describe a disease that causes...
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One of the most recognized ways of handling grief and other strong emotions is to journal. Journaling is expressing yourself through writing, or drawing, the emotions and feelings you are experiencing. There is no right or wrong way to journal...
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You probably don’t know this but May is Mental Health Awareness Month. It is supposed to be a time where we learn more about mental health issues and ways to support and respect those who have mental health problems. For many though, this has...
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