As difficult as it may be to sleep during the first shocking days since a bereavement, problems of disturbed sleep may carry on long through the months and years of grief. Not being able to fall asleep, not being able to stay sleep, having troubled sleep are not uncommon. It’s really important to find a…
The Old English word for grief, heartsarnes, literally means soreness of the heart. Heartache originates from the Old English heortece, originally used to refer to heart disease. From Understanding how Grief Weakens the Body The Oxford Handbook of Stress, Health and Coping describes the impact that bereavement can have on our physical health. The odds of a…
A lot of people struggle with their health following bereavement. This post links to articles about the impact that grief can have on our health and ideas of what we can do about it. Grief and our health Grief can make you sick, but it doesn’t mean that it will. It’s quite common in…
Being kind to yourself, taking care of yourself, allowing yourself to be happy are essential if you are living with loss.
A post about mental health, that might also relate to grief for some people. I’ll put a little disclaimer here: I’m not medically or scientifically trained, and my understanding of many topics is a layman’s, and also from life experience. I do however participate quite regularly in training sessions related to grief and bereavement, and…
The other day a link to this article came on my Twitter feed, “For the brokenhearted grief can lead to death” An interesting study on the impact of grief on levels of inflammation, concluding: … grief — regardless of people’s levels of depressive symptoms — can promote inflammation, which in turn can cause negative health…
Grief can be utterly exhausting. The reasons for this may seem obvious, such as poor sleep patterns as I wrote about earlier. There may be a lot to take care of related to the death of the loved one – funeral arrangements and so on. Or their absence may have left you simply with more…
As difficult as it may be to sleep during the first shocking days since a bereavement, problems of disturbed sleep may carry on long through the months and years of grief. Not being able to fall asleep, not being able to stay sleep, having troubled sleep are not uncommon. It’s really important to find a…
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