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How Long Does the Grieving Process Last?

At some point or another, we will all experience grief. Grief is an intense emotion, so it makes sense that we won’t want to be dealing with it all the time. We’ve all had to get more up close and personal with grief in the last year than we’re used to, and it can be […]

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The Top 7 Benefits of Group Therapy

When you picture therapy, what do you imagine? Is it you lying on a couch talking to a therapist about your relationship with your parents? A common assumption about therapy is that there’s only one way to do it, but there isn’t one single way to approach therapy. There are different modalities that therapists use, […]

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How to Deal With A Grief Anniversary

How to Deal With A Grief Anniversary

Now that we’re coming up on a year in pandemic life, you might be feeling a sense of grief that you can’t quite explain. You might notice yourself reacting more to the fact that we’ve been separated from our normal lives. You might be missing folks you’ve lost over this time, or feel like you’ve […]

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4 Ways to Express Grief That Aren’t Just Talking About It

Grief is hard to deal with. It can even feel impossible to let ourselves feel it enough to express grief. And–as we’ve talked about on the blog before–there are a lot of causes for grief right now. Grief is one of those tricky feelings that doesn’t feel good to acknowledge or express, but somehow feels […]

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32 Journal Prompts for Grieving and Loss

What are your preferred ways to process your feelings? The emotions we feel aren’t always easy to understand, so sometimes we need to spend some time coming to terms with what we’re feeling. This is especially true for intense emotions, like when we’re grieving. Some people like to use physical movement, like dancing, running, or […]

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Coping with Holiday Grief

2020 has been a hard, unpredictable year. Most of us, I’m sure, are happy to see it wrapping up! While there is still a lot of uncertainty regarding how 2021 will fare, there is something cathartic about imaging 2020 in our rearview mirror. But before we get there, we still have the last hurdle… making […]

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Benefits of Talking About Grief

Benefits of Talking About Grief

Grief is something we all have to deal with at some point. Although we don’t like to think about it, grief is something that is unavoidable. It covers a broad range of experiences – grief can be felt because of a death or illness, the loss of a friendship or relationship, divorce, moving, switching jobs, […]

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What is Collective Grief?

What is Collective Grief?

Collective grief happens when a community, society, village, or nation all experience extreme change or loss. Collective grief can manifest in the wake of major events such as: war, natural disasters, or others that result in mass casualties or widespread tragedy. Like individual grief, there is a feeling of lack of control that comes with […]

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Self-Care When Grieving

Self-Care When Grieving

As we’ve discussed on the blog recently, the current coronavirus pandemic has changed the way most of us live our day-to-day lives and will for the foreseeable future. We have all had to adjust to major changes in our routines in addition to worries about finances, safety, and how long this will all be going […]

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Grief and Coronavirus | Grief Recovery Center

Grief and Coronavirus

The last few weeks in the United States have been an unprecedented whirlwind with the spread of coronavirus, and essentially everyone is feeling it. Confusion, panic, and fear are circulating throughout the country right now, and unfortunately, it looks like this process is only beginning. You may not have even had time to process your […]

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