The Science & Process of Healing from Grief
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The Science & Process of Healing from Grief
As you remember these experiences, notice how you feel on a visceral level. A cognitive recounting will not suffice, unless it is connected strongly to a bodily feeling, because your memories were stored in your body on a cellular level. The challenge is to find the accurate sense of feeling but not necessarily a storyline. Truly grieving involves
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The brain devotes lots of effort to mapping where our loved ones are while they are alive, so that we can find them when we need them. And the brain often prefers habits and predictions over new information. But it struggles to learn new information that cannot be ignored, like the absence of our loved one.[…]Grief is a heart-wrenchingly painful pr... See more
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of the most, if not the most, enduring. In a study7 of diaries written over many years’ time, Paul C. Rosenblatt, Ph.D., found that people may recover from the worst of their soul-grief in the first year or two after a tragedy, depending on a person’s support systems and so forth. But afterward, the person continues to experience periods of active
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Step 5: Give Yourself Time Every time you suffer an injury to your emotions, you’ll go through the whole grieving process: denial, anger, grief, acceptance. Actually, it’s more like denial, anger, grief, anger, denial, grief, anger, grief, more grief, absolutely blistering anger, denial … and so on. Although “acceptance” does come along eventually,
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Take time to grieve in a way that feels right to you. In the middle of deepest, earliest grief, sometimes you will be joyous, and sometimes you will not be thinking about the one whom you have lost. It ebbs and flows, loses some of its power over time, but never disappears entirely. No matter what, honor your memories and your inclinations.
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There is a wide range of emotions associated with grief, not just sadness and despair. We may become aware of a feeling of loneliness, for example, and, rather than deny, distract from, or repress the feeling, we pause and stay with it because we see it. Seeing it, we are awake and self-aware even amid the ache and unease.
Joanne Cacciatore • Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief
Thus our strange relationship with the pain of grief. In the early days, we wish only for it to end; later on, we fear that it will. And when it finally does begin to ease, it also does not, because, at first, feeling better can feel like loss, too.
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