Are you grieving this holiday season?
You’re not alone.
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Did you know that December 2-8 is National Grief Awareness Week?
National Grief Awareness Week is an annual event that aims to create a safe space for individuals to openly discuss their experiences with grief and loss. It encourages empathy, compassion, and support for those who are grieving, emphasizing that grief is a universal and often challenging part of the human experience.
Grief is something that we will all experience, and it isn’t something that ever fully goes away. Instead of outgrowing the sense of grief, everything else expands to surround the grief.The grief stays the same size, but we find other ways to cope and bring joy into our lives even with the grief there. This process takes time, compassion, and action.
If you’re grieving, you’re not alone. We see you 💙 If you need grief support right now, our therapists can help.
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When it comes to grief and loss, we, as a society, are unsure about what to say and what not to say to someone that’s lost a loved one, pet, recently divorced or any other loss. So most of us say what we’ve learned from others and think it’s helpful.
The truth is, there are a lot of unhelpful, yet common, statements that are said to grieving people. Keep in mind that though these statements are expressed with good intentions, they are unhelpful.
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Holiday Support from Grief Recovery Center
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Instead of trying to make this time seem normal, we need to acknowledge the grief, not suppress it, and try to find new ways to add joy to our season instead of letting the absence of what is usually there take over our holidays.
How to Navigate Your Grief Recovery during the Holidays
With the loss of our loved one, making changes in our life can be very difficult. By creating new traditions and rituals, we can ease the transition into our new life while preserving the old bonds we had before our loss.
5 Grief Recovery Ways to Be There for Someone in Grief Over the Holidays
As a friend or family member of someone going through grief through the holidays, it can be confusing as to how you can help and be there. Whether the grief is recent or in the past, it can be awkward in these times if you do not know what to do.
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| Ways to Cope With Grief During the Holidays | Grief Recovery Center |
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Books about holiday grief
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“Missing You for the Holidays is an adult coloring book to help those suffering loss, experiencing grief, sadness, deployment and alienation during the holidays.”
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“Season’s Griefings: A Holiday Grief Workbook is a fun way to unpack a serious experience: grief. The holidays can be an especially challenging and isolating time for grievers, and this book will help you cope and smile while doing so.”
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The Empty Chair: Handling Grief on Holidays and Special Occasions
“Losing a loved one–whether a spouse, parent, child, sibling, or friend–leaves people feeling overwhelmed and hopeless. Holidays and other special occasions seem to intensify the pain. Whether the occasion is Christmas or Easter, a birthday or anniversary, these celebrations force the bereaved to again face the reality of a loved one’s absence.”
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Grief doesn’t go away with time. Grief only goes away when we take action to move through it.
The distress we feel when grieving comes from pain and unfinished emotions. When we take time to discover what these unfinished emotions are and take actions to complete them, we experience real relief from grief. This is the basis of the Grief Recovery® Method, and time and time again people who go through the program feel that their quality of life has improved.
Researchers have studied the Grief Recovery® Method and have found that not only is it effective, it’s also evidence based. The evidence shows it works! No other grief program has been shown to be evidence based through research.
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