Why Focusing on Children’s Mental Resilience is Vital During Grief
Focusing on children’s mental resilience during grief provides a safeguard against complicated grief; enabling them to bounce back
Focusing on children’s mental resilience during grief provides a safeguard against complicated grief; enabling them to bounce back
Grief, while a universal experience, has no one-size-fits-all solution. The journey is deeply personal, filled with twists and turns.
Though mourning together seems like an insurmountable challenge, it’s possible strengthen family unity in times of grief.
Dealing with grief after the loss of a loved one can be extremely difficult. There are many ways of staying close to people who passed on.
Although I feel like I’ve been hit by a ton of bricks after my therapy sessions, these truth bombs from my therapist are what I need to hear.
They say grief gets easier with time. I don’t think it gets easier. It just changes form. In those first few days, weeks, and months, I was lost in my own grief. Then I transformed.
I was not only captivated by the story in All the Bright Places, but completely tuned into the ways they were bringing mental illness into the conversation.
Y’all, I miss my mom like crazy every day; but I can’t look past the change in myself without her here. I can’t deny the way that grief has changed me.
The rides, shows, and all-around family fun at SeaWorld was just what we needed to keep us focused on what we have, yet gently remind us of what we lost.
For the first time in my life, I’m less than excited about the holidays. Honestly? I’m down-right dreading them….