Be kind to yourself!
Being kind to yourself, taking care of yourself, allowing yourself to be happy are essential if you are living with loss.
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Mental health: It’s not “in your head”; it’s actually in the brain
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…
Links between grief and poor health
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…
“I was feeling fine until…” – The tiredness of grief.
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…
Sleep problems and grief
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…
Loss, cancer, continuation
A personal reflection on why living with loss through bereavement is not the same as other losses.
Can grief make you sick? (research and commentary)
One doctor wrote an article: “How Grief can make you sick” Delving further into the subject, I found that the Oxford Handbook of Stress, Health and Coping cites research indicating the impact that bereavement can have on our physical health. The odds of a new or worsened illness was estimated at 1.4 times the risk…
