#Grief #UnderstandingGrief #GriefHelp Have you lost a close loved one? What parts of the person you lost through death are you integrating with the way you are? What behaviors, ways …


#Grief #UnderstandingGrief #GriefHelp Have you lost a close loved one? What parts of the person you lost through death are you integrating with the way you are? What behaviors, ways …

If we are to heal, we must ultimately learn to let go of our anger and follow a different path.
The first stepping stone on that path is learning to forgive and trust yourself. It is learning that you are definitely someone you can count on. This is also the first step in learning or re-learning to trust others.

“Where there is life, there is always hope. There are times when we must dig it out from under a pile of life’s rubble, but dig we must.”` Coach Iris Arenson-Fuller, PCC, CPC

Changed By Grief ©Iris J. Arenson-Fuller, PCC, CPC Yes, it is true that we are forever changed by most of the losses in our lives. Serious loss usually …

Defining and Describing How do you define grief? What words can you use to describe your own grief? If you were writing a play or a story and grief …

The feelings, all the feelings you’ve have had since you lost your spouse, or someone else you dearly love, are absolutely legit. There is still more work to do, to get you out of your shell, than just filling up the time. It’s time to begin to let your real self out of the place where you’ve kept it locked up, or hidden away for a time.
Something different and new may be needed to help ignite a spark in you that has been dormant.

There’s something that has irritated me for a while. No it hasn’t triggered me! I get that language evolves over time. I embrace change in various forms and believe change is usually a healthy thing, but perhaps I’m just more of a linguistic purist than I like to admit.

I have a serious question for you today. I really wonder at times if I am living in my own little world, or in an alternate universe? Do you ever feel like that? I’ll tell you what has made me feel that way.

I hope this article will help people who haven’t been through this, to understand some of the challenges widowers and widowers face after death of a spouse. I also hope it will validate some of the things that you might be experiencing if you have lost your spouse or partner.

In my work with widows and others who are grieving the loss of loved ones, clients have reported the discovery of some difficult secrets when going through the possessions of …