The Science & Process of Healing from Grief

Grieving occurs best in the gap that opens in your life once you are alone. It cannot proceed while you are involved with someone new. When a relationship has ended, the healthy adult allows adequate time alone for working through grief and for processing what has been learned. Time elapses and then readiness for a new relationship occurs. One neit

a certain sense, I suspect the bypassing of traumatic grief may be the greatest threat facing humankind today, responsible for immense suffering from addictions and abuse to social disconnection and perhaps even war. When we disconnect from our grief, we disconnect from ourselves. When we disconnect from ourselves, we disconnect from others and fro

Most known for identifying the five stages of grief experienced by those dealing with death (denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance),

Step 5: Give Yourself Time Every time you suffer an injury to your emotions, you’ll go through the whole grieving process: denial, anger, grief, acceptance. Actually, it’s more like denial, anger, grief, anger, denial, grief, anger, grief, more grief, absolutely blistering anger, denial … and so on. Although “acceptance” does come along eventually,