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The Power of Lists
The Power of Lists
The theme of this month's newsletter is The Power of Lists. Lists can be a powerful and effective way to analyze, focus, remember and prioritize things. Our thought was to provide a series of lists that offer helpful suggestions and coping strategies to help you as you move along your grief journey.
Thank you for reading our very first newsletter. We will try to keep future issues as informative and interesting as we can. We encourage all of our readers to contact us with thoughts, comments, suggestions or contributions. We would love to hear from you.
10 Things About the First Year of Grief
By Nathalie Himmelrich
The first year marks the first time you experience and do everything without the person you have lost. Traditionally, society believed that it gets easier after the first year. Some still believe this nowadays. The truth is that the challenging time post-loss is as individual as the bereaved themselves. Trust in your own time-line processing grief.
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20 Ways to Get Through Those Bad Days
By Maureen Hunter
After the loss of a loved one we are thrown into the chaos of grief, flailing around aimlessly in the swell of hurt and emotions that swamp us. Every day seems like a bad day.
Even many years later we can have days where the effort of coping, the effort of everyday demands and the effort of living becomes too great to bear for a time. We give in and collapse, letting ourselves become engulfed and dragged down by our emotional burdens.
When we're in that place it's hard to find a way out, to see daylight and be able to breathe in fresh air again. Here are some tips to help you navigate the black hole - 20 ways you can get through your bad days.
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The Top 10 Lessons I Learned From Grief
By Cindy Adams
#10 I didn't care what anyone thought about how I grieved:
Grief made me go crazy for a while. I was selfish and self-centered. Thankfully, my family and friends supported me through and took care of my children until I came to my senses.
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Seven Healing Questions To Ask Yourself When Mourning
By Lou LaGrand
When coping with the death of a loved the most important factor in finding peace is how you communicate with yourself. Why? Because coping with the massive changes involved when a loved one dies has little to do with what happens on the outside but everything to do with our commitment to adapt to the new circumstances we face. That is an inside job.
The way we give meaning to loss and relate to it changes our perceptions and how we see our new world without the physical presence of the beloved.
In short, if we work on our inner life and realize we have great power within, then it is possible to overcome any obstacle. This journey can be accomplished by addressing seven key questions.
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10 Things About Relationship Changes With Grief
By Nathalie Himmelrich
Grief and loss changes many things and the people directly involved. There is no doubt that it also changes the relationship dynamics between directly involved people, as well as the way friends and family interact with the bereaved and vice versa.
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Six Common Myths of Grief
By Dora Carpenter
Within 48 to 72 hours of a major loss, you might hear many common statements from others who are trying to make you feel better. Unfortunately, only a few are helpful. Most can actually be hurtful and prolong your heartbreak. Please understand that grief is natural, normal, and necessary.
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10 Answers to the Questions What Can I Do to Help?
By Tanya Lord
What can we do to help when someone we know has experienced a death of a loved one?
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Our Newsletter
The Grief Toolbox is delighted to introduce this first edition of our newsletter. We intend to make it a regular publication and to use it to keep you in touch with topics dealing with grief and loss. When it comes to dealing with grief, it can be a challenge to find the resources we need to educate ourselves and our loved ones on what is happening and how to best keep going forward.
We here at The Grief Toolbox understand that needs change as we go from the raw encompassing pain of the first year to the stark reality of the second year, and then to the growth and reinventing ourselves of the middle years to the acceptance and blessing that now coexists with the pain and love that will always be a part of our life. We cannot make your pain go away, nor can we provide answers for you. What we can do is help you to find the tools that you need to work through your grief journey.
