“I had grief in the boxing ring, and it was not pretty.” Grief facilitator Andrea Moore is speaking out and helping siblings build resiliency.”
When dealing with grief it can be hard to put your own feelings into words, so reading someone else’s can often be helpful. Although reading can be challenging during bereavement, it can be one method of coping with loss and understanding how grief can affect you.
That’s why we asked our friends in our Tender Hearts community for their help in curating what books are helping them during the grief journey ahead.
Grief does not end after we’ve wished our final goodbyes. If you want to support someone who is experiencing loss, know that you are most needed after the funeral is over, and when the shock wears off.
At age 12, Danica Thurber lost her father to a sudden heart attack. She then experienced a string of other losses, including her desire to hold it all together. Thurber says that “grief threatened to engulf me.” Always an artist, she began painting pain and death alongside the beautiful parts of life and discovered that this would be a healing process for her. “It took me years, and a lot of support, to find personal healing,” she said, “and along the way, I began to reach out to others who had experienced loss.” Thurber is now a Therapeutic Art Life Coach, a fine artist and art teacher. She and her husband founded Project Grief, an online school that teaches art as a tool for personal grief recovery. The school is for anyone who’s experienced a loss and shows them how to translate intangible, painful feelings onto a visible canvas. In…
A common effect of grief is feeling guilty about what we think we could or should have done, and sometimes, what we did do.
My initial thoughts on a support group were not anything close to what I discovered them to be. Eventually, after months of going crazy and not knowing how to deal with my confused mind and aching heart, I joined a grief group. Here’s what I learned and why you should join one.
