Processing Grief
Grief is complex and comes with many layers. These videos reflect my experiences, reflections, and the stories of my guests in hopes to connect and provide comfort to those struggling with grief. Explore the topics on processing grief below.
Our Story
Individuals share their personal experiences with loss and grief. Through sharing our pain and grief, we can feel connected and understand that we are not alone in this journey.
Life Changes after Loss
Explore the different changes we can experience after the loss of a loved one. Change can be difficult to accept and adjust to, especially when we are trying to learn how to process our grief.
Responses to Loss
My hopes are that by sharing my experiences and reflections, people can start to normalize their own grief experience and understand that there is no right or wrong way to grieve.
Fear after Loss
Loss reminds us of life’s fragility and creates a lot of fear and anxiety about losing another loved one.
Secondary Losses
When we lose a loved one, we can experience losses related to our identity, belief system, financial security, and many more. With every milestone that we go through, we become increasingly aware of the absence of our loved ones.
Connection after Loss
Our loved ones were people that mattered to us and we can continue to honor them past the physical dimensions.
Anticipatory Grief
Anticipatory grief can be difficult to understand because we may judge our experiences as being unwarranted since there is no physical loss at the moment.
Complicated Grief
We can start to feel conflicted within our grief experiences due to the expectations and pressures of what our grief should look like regardless of the relationship with our loved ones.
Grief and the Holidays
I share my personal and professional experiences related to the various emotions and reactions that can come up in our grief experience, specifically during special dates, anniversaries, seasons, and holidays.
Support within the Grief Experience
Here are some helpful tips and information that we should consider when trying to provide support to someone after they’ve experienced the loss of a loved one.