Grieving Process

Don't let people tell you to get over it — “The whole world can become the enemy when you lose what you love”~ Kristina Mc Morris~ Bridge of the Scarlett Leaves A Year of Bereavement. It has been a year since my fiancé passed away. I no longer post about him on Facebook. …

I’ve written previously how all trauma messes with your relationships. How could it be otherwise? Death is the penultimate trauma, so it will mess with your relationships far more than anything else. I call this effect, ‘Address Book Killing’, or maybe better yet, ‘Address Book Death’ (ABD). …

When we are in a time of grieving, committing to anything feels absolutely hopeless. Pushing through the mundane tasks of the day can zap all your energy and leave you laying empty and exhausted on the nearest couch. During these times of processing loss, those around us may tell us…

Learning to live with grief is a part of living and thriving because we’re all going to go through grief in our lives. It’s inevitable. — Grieving is the feeling of grief for or because of a loss in one's life. It’s a transitive verb in the English language. Webster’s Dictionary defines grieving as, : to cause to suffer: Distress//it grieves me to see him this way : to feel or show grief over //grieving the…

Almost did lines of coke at breakfast when my husband retired. Left a career, and my beloved city life where I enjoyed personal space and moved to rural life in small hometown together 24/7. Equally irritated, my friend loathes her caretaker role for her husband’s glacially slow hip recovery. Life…