Managing grief can be a challenge. Here are five tips and tricks plus breathwork to help you get through a loss of any kind. Too much grief can weigh us and make us feel like the wind—or our very life force—has been knocked out of us. Sometimes we know what we are grieving, and sometimes …
Grief is probably the most personal of experiences. There is no set rule on how long or in what ways one chooses to grieve. As much as we want our loved ones to feel better and return to their usual selves, grief tends to have a life of its own, including denial, rage, hopelessness, depression, …
Many times right after someone passes away, they choose to seek us out in our dreams to let us know they are okay, and that their love for us continues from where they are.
Until we transition and are greeted by those who have passed before us, it’s easy to imagine Heaven as a far-off geographical place.
Those who pass are not “dead and gone,” but still right here, for at the level of pure Consciousness, there is only “here.”
The day my father died, I was at the grocery store buying bananas. I remember thinking to myself, “This is insane. Your dad just died. Why the hell are you buying bananas?” But we needed bananas. We’d be waking up for breakfast tomorrow morning, and there wouldn’t be any bananas—so there I was. And …
Sometimes, people are so numbed by grief that they feel they have lost all touch with the person who has died. When this happens, the angels and the spirit of the person who has died may make contact via someone else. It might be another family member, or it could be a complete stranger. Somebody may give you their favorite flowers, hum their favorite music or say something that sounds exactly like what they would have said.
The thought of death, the great unknown, evokes a variety of emotions, from fear to awe. When you sit down to discuss the topic with end of life planner Alua Arthur, you’re bound to experience the full range. Self-described death doula, Arthur is there during an individual or family’s most intimate and painful moments, easing the transition from this life to the great beyond.
The summer I was 18 I was driving down a country road with my mother. This was in the rural county where I grew up and all of the roads were country, the houses spread out over miles, hardly any of them in sight of a neighbor. Driving meant going past an endless stream of trees and fields and wildflowers. On this particular afternoon, my mother and I came upon a yard sale at a big house where a very old woman lived alone, her husband dead, her kids grown and gone.
What are we supposed to do when someone dies? I wish I had a simple answer. And in some ways, I do. There is nothing you can do except ride the waves of grief. Loss is so unexpected, even when it is expected. We cannot fathom what it will feel like to lose someone close to us. There is no comparison to the experience of deep grief.
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