When you’re widowed, talking about grief and loss is crucial for emotional and mental health.
When you share your thoughts, feelings, and emotions with others, it gives them an opportunity to support you, and reminds you that you're not alone.
Talking about grief also helps normalize it by breaking the silence around loss, allowing emotions to surface. This can help bring healing to everyone in a conversation.
Widowhood often walks hand-in-hand with myths and misjudgments that can make things harder for you as a grieving person.
Some people in your life may believe there's a right way for you to grieve, or a wrong way for you to grieve, or a timeline for you to do it, but each person grieves differently.
When well-meaning people share their grief and loss myths or misconceptions with you, it can make you feel pressured to experience your grief in a manner that’s not true to yourself.
In this video, we discuss several common grief and widowhood myths to help you feel supported and remind you that you don’t need to buy into someone else’s beliefs or misbeliefs about the ways you are, or are not, grieving.
There’s a difference between grief and mourning. Although the words are often used interchangeably, they mean different things.
It’s a myth that grief happens in orderly stages, with one stage following another. The reality of grief is much more complex.
Grief, loss, and trauma can have profound effects on your brain, altering its structure and function in ways that affect your mental and emotional health.
Grief, loss, and trauma have profound effects not only on the brain but also on the body. This can manifest in many physical symptoms and health issues.
You’re no longer the person you were before your spouse or partner died. With them gone, it feels like a part of you is missing too.
You’re not going crazy. You’re deep in grief.
When we become widowed, we find that one loss is actually a cascading series of many losses.
One of the things that may change when you become widowed is your relationship with some of the people in your life.
Widowhood is a time to prioritize yourself. It’s okay to set boundaries to protect your emotional, mental, and physical health, and it’s okay to let people know what you’re not here for. (Part 1 of 4)
Widowhood is a time to prioritize yourself. It’s okay to set boundaries to protect your emotional, mental, and physical health, and it’s okay to let people know what you’re not here for. (Part 2 of 4)
Widowhood is a time to prioritize yourself. It’s okay to set boundaries to protect your emotional, mental, and physical health, and it’s okay to let people know what you’re not here for. (Part 3 of 4)
Widowhood is a time to prioritize yourself. It’s okay to set boundaries to protect your emotional, mental, and physical health, and it’s okay to let people know what you’re not here for. (Part 4 of 4)
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Letting people know what you need in grief can be extremely hard, especially because you yourself may not know. Sometimes it may be easier to let people know what you don’t need.
When your person dies, you may find that some people in your life, or even many of them, stop saying their name.
When someone tells you to "get over it" or “just move on” from your grief, it can be extremely hurtful and invalidating.
It’s okay to seek help with your grief process. You don’t have to do it all alone.
There is no timeline for grief. Grieving takes as long as it takes. However long this process is for you, that’s okay.
Choosing to heal means finding a self-loving way to live alongside your loss, to companion it. To acknowledge it and walk beside it as you commit to self growth and forward momentum in your life.
You can be happy again in widowhood. Even though it might feel impossible right now, you can create a new life filled with purpose, meaning, and joy.
If you’re seeking more self-knowledge, self-development, self-care, and personal growth, you’re invited to book a 30-minute discovery session with Laurie Rich, Certified Grief Coach, Integrative Somatic Practitioner, and Widow University Founder.
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