Holiday Tips to Relieve Stress
If you are suffering from grief many of you know the holiday season can be filled with stress and unrealistic demands that cause depletion of your energy. How do you avoid this happening to you? There are certain things that you can do that will alleviate some of the chaos. I will give you some […]
Continue readingAnxiety? Do you suffer from it? Here’s Help!
Are you suffering from anxiety? The question is: how do you know you have anxiety? According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. It is: (1) : apprehensive uneasiness or nervousness usually over an impending or anticipated ill : a state of being anxious (2) medical : an abnormal and overwhelming sense of apprehension and fear often marked by physical signs (such as tension, sweating, […]
Continue readingWhat can you do on National Suicide Prevention Day?
September is National Suicide Prevention Awareness month and September 10th is National Suicide Prevention Day. I thought it appropriate to write this blog since my husband Steve died by suicide on September 14th. You also may have lost a loved one to suicide. If so, I am very sorry for your loss. If you follow […]
Continue readingUnprocessed Grief, Are you stuck in it?
Do you have unprocessed grief? Grief is a normal reaction to loss and if you have experienced love then you shall experience grief at sometime in your life. Everyone grieves in his or her own time frame and in the way that is right for him or her. The problem occurs if grief is brushed […]
Continue readingWhat are your emotions saying to you?
Have you ever thought to write a letter to yourself? Why should you? To express those pent up emotions that are eating your insides up. It’s not those that are associated with grief. Those emotions must be processed and then let go of as part of your grief journey. The emotions that I am referring to […]
Continue readingAre You A Survivor?
Today is International Survivors of Suicide Loss Day. If you are reading this and have lost someone to suicide this makes you a “survivor.” So this day is important for you. But don’t stop there, instead become a thriver! Ask yourself, why shouldn’t I be happy? Your happiness doesn’t ever take away the love you will […]
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