When the lights go out… GRIEF during the holidays

Think of Grief as Another form of Love

Excerpt from Meghan Rabbitt (full article click here) https://www.health.com/mind-body/grief-during-the-holidays?utm_source=pocket-newtab

One of the reasons grieving during the holidays can be so tricky is because we interrupt our grieving process with some version of “I shouldn’t be crying or feel sad right now,” says Dawson. Yet if there’s a silver lining to grief, it’s that it reminds us of how much love we had for the person we lost, she says.

“The reality is, we don’t grieve things that don’t matter,” she says. “When we’re grieving, it means we loved someone, that they mattered in our lives, and that we deeply miss them.” When you remind yourself of this, it’s easier to reframe feeling sad as a healthy, accurate sign that you loved someone so much, your heart is breaking because they’re no longer here.

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