Archive for category: Grieving

Most of us develop the ability to try to control our lives and emotions. That is a part of the socialization process. When you are deeply grieving a loss, it’s then that you feel a loss of control. Suddenly, you cannot control your feelings and that can be overwhelming. You might find yourself feeling sad and/or crying without any ability to stop. You might find that things that were once important no longer have any meaning. These are among the many common reactions people have to grief. This can be scary.  It can make you afraid of your future. Because of that loss, it’s likely not the future you had planned.

 

If you have found grief to be overwhelming for you, it’s not because there is anything wrong with you. Grief is the normal and natural reaction to change in your life. Likewise, if you have felt lost in how to deal with that emotional pain, it’s simply because you never had the proper tools to deal with it effectively. As an Advanced Certified Grief Recovery Specialist I can offer you that direction and the opportunity to look forward to another day, rather than fearing what it might bring. Grief can be scary, but it does not need to destroy your life and your ability to feel joy, unless you allow that to be the case! www.JenniferGriefRecovery.com

For many people Valentine’s day is about romance, love, flowers and of course, chocolate. For others it’s a reminder of a broken or hurting heart.

Holidays often trigger sadness and pain about a loved one that died, a relationship that changed or ended, an event that happened, or a love they wish they had.

These feelings of grief are just as valid as feelings of love and sadly we’re never taught how to heal from heartbreak. The Grief Recovery Method can provide you tools to help you properly heal.

Here are a few great resources for Valentine’s Day. I hope you feel free to read if one speaks to you.

Moving On: Dump Your Relationship Baggage and Make Room for the Love of Your Life

5 Things to Do if You Feel Sad on Valentine’s Day

Valentine’s Day Sadness

If you are tired of this feeling, and ready to heal your heartache, you can email, call, or private message me directly. I look forward to working with you.

 

Happy New Year to you all! Wishes for a prosperous and very healthy 2021!

A Sign of Unresolved Grief

Unresolved grief leaves anger incomplete, which in-turn becomes frozen as resentment. The primary goal of effective grief recovery is to help people discover and complete what was left emotionally unfinished for them. Death, divorce, past relationships, or the end of love relationships are what keep many frozen, unfinished, or stuck from being complete.

The good news is, I can help! I hope to hear from you today to begin working on completing your unresolved grief.

Without Action There Can Be No Change!

Have you experienced the heartache of a break-up, the death of a friend, family member or pet? Have you experienced a miscarriage, loss of trust, losing a job, a child leaving home, bankruptcy, retirement or any other loss?

I understand that this is a rhetorical question as there’s a huge likelihood that you have. In fact most, if not all of us, have. Which is exactly why this is a perfect time for awareness of grief. It’s a perfect time to spread the word that everyone grieves and that grief is normal and natural and that no one should grieve alone. Did you hear that? Grief is NORMAL and NATURAL.

While there are no real stages of grief, here are common characteristics that many grievers experience. Difficulty concentrating, difficulty sleeping, changes in their eating habits, overwhelmed, stressed, and isolation just to name a few.

A huge piece of misinformation is the advice that people give about grief. Have you ever heard the myth that grief just takes time? We hear this and phrases alike in which we just simply need time to heal. Or another one that we hear when we are grieving is that you should keep busy! If you stay busy you will forget about it, which is what the concept here is. All that keeping busy does is distract grievers from their feelings. Keeping busy keeps people stuck in their pain. In my experiences in working with grievers time hasn’t healed anyone’s broken heart and staying busy has only made them stuck. Yet what has helped, is the action that someone takes during a certain time frame that helps someone be able to recover.

So it’s rather simple. What can you do? Who do you know?

Awareness is a great first step. Followed by a plan to recover. That is the part where I come in, having gone through this myself as a griever I was lost. In fact, I lost hope. I did almost everything, read all the self-help books, sat through the classes, and until I found the Grief Recovery Method, I truly believed I would have suffocated in my Grief. Going through all of it and coming through the other side to now become an Advanced Certified Grief Recovery Specialist, I too want you to experience being able to breathe again. I am committed to working with you to restore hope and life back into your every day.

I look forward to speaking with you the moment that you are ready!