Grief and Loss

It’s hard to let go.

After losing a loved one, you’re not sure how to move forward with your life without them. On the one hand, you want to fast-forward several months or years to the point where you feel more like your functional self again.

At this moment, however, you feel frozen in time, and there is less distance between you and the loved one you lost.

Grieving your loss is made worse because navigating the logistical aspect of losing someone, like handling finances and figuring out what to do with all their things, leaves little time to sit with your loss or grant yourself any compassion.

It’s hard to explain to others how you feel.

Processing grief and loss aren’t easy.

At some point, you hope that life will quickly resume after experiencing loss, but the daily routine is now overwhelming and unmanageable.

You spend most of your time wishing you had the power to change things, fixating on regrets, or trying to calm your nerves.

In an effort not to bring others down, you notice that you’re isolating yourself from friends and family, but it’s only making you feel more alone.

You’ve told yourself that everyone experiences loss at some point in their life, “So why should you spend time dwelling?”

The weight of grief should not be carried alone.

Grief is a natural response to loss. While it’s important to experience the process, it can come with immense, maybe even debilitating, pain.

Despite being a universal experience, grief is a unique emotional response for everyone. Everyone grieves differently, and there is no timetable for how a person overcomes the loss and grief they feel. To push through or rush these emotions will only make things more difficult for you in the long run.

Grief therapy focuses on validation and learning how to live in your new “normal,” whatever that may be. You will have the space to sit in your pain while also working toward bringing yourself out of that heavy darkness. Slowly but surely, the weight of grief begins to lessen, allowing you to function in your daily life again.

Contact me today, and let’s discuss how I can help you process your loss.