Importance of focusing on your grief.
Ask the Therapist
Nora McInerny
Grief Insights
Within a few months in 2014, Nora McInerny lost a pregnancy and both her father and husband to cancer. Her 4 books and her podcast, “Hot young widows club,” deal with the reality that we don’t simply “move on” from grief. In fact, she abhors that phrase, as it implies that grief happens in a moment or an episode. What we really do is move forward, because the person that grief makes us is different than the person we previously were.
How to talk to a therapist.
Ask the Therapist
Alison Diaries: Grief is like an ocean.
"Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim." – Vicki Harrison
I’m a member of a fraternity no man ever wants to join. Membership lasts a lifetime, and although there are no dues, the cost to enter comes at the heaviest emotional price.
Penny Kreitzer
Grief Insights
Penny Kreitzer lost her 21-year-old daughter in a tragic accident and was so overwhelmed with grief that some family members and friends began avoiding her.
Alison Diaries: 7 Months after
I can see how my thinking has evolved since those first few awful months. Early on, I realized that in order to swim back to the surface and breathe again, I’d have to get to where this was about me and not just her anymore. I thought, “Yes, I’m stuck in the mud, overwhelmed with feelings of emptiness, confusion and fear about my ability to recover. But I won’t recover unless I stop analyzing what actually happened to her and focus on what’s best for me.”