Grief is not meant to be rushed

July 23, 2008 by  
Filed under HOW DO YOU DEAL WITH GRIEF

Sometimes people try to help by rushing you out of the grieving process back into the main stream of what your life was. People sometimes even say words like “You need to get back into life” but your life is forever changed by the transition of loss. The length of the grieving process is different for each person, and you know the grieving process needs to take place for healing to begin. This is not to say one should grieve forever and not move on with life, but grieve in your own way and while the healing takes place you will move on in your own pace. Life does go on and you will too in time.

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  1. Putting a band-aid on grieving on Fri, 30th Jan 2009 2:58 pm 

    [...] talking with some friends recently about their journey through grief I have come to the conclusion that in the American culture we tend to just put a band-aid on the [...]

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