emotionally intelligent grief support
What are the realities of life as a grieving person in a culture that expects you to eventually (the sooner the better) return to your “normal” happy self? How can journaling help you carry the impossible weight of grief? What does practicing gratitude really look like inside grief? Find out the answer to these questions…
Simone Biles’ decision to withdraw from Olympic competition has put a spotlight on mental health. But is all this talk about protecting your mental health going to do us any good? The importance of good mental health is having a moment in the spotlight. Obviously, that’s good news. Open, direct conversations about mental and emotional…
Grief is a profoundly exhausting experience. Do you find yourself dealing with people, including people who love you dearly, who keeping doing or saying things that aren’t helpful, but you simply don’t have the energy to say so, let alone to try teaching them about what would actually help? Feeling exhausted by trying to educate…
I remember those early days. When the life you expected to unfold disappears: vaporized. When the world has split open and nothing makes sense. When people talk at you and for you and around you, and not only do you no longer understand what they’re saying, you no longer care. Your life…
Grief affects so many things in day-to-day life. Are there books, movies, tv shows, music, or other things that you actively avoice because you’re afraid they’ll make you feel too much? Is that normal? Avoiding books (and other media) that make you feel too much is #perfectlynormal in grief. We often hear the same thing from…
“His work here on earth was done.” “Their death has made you into the person you are today!” In the comments section of every story of loss (at least on huge media platforms), you’ll see these kinds of omniscient, resilience-baiting, garbage remarks. No one needed their person to die in order to become “who they…
Are you doing it wrong, or is your grief actually a normal response to loss? Find out in this episode of Depresh Mode, the new podcast from John Moe (formerly of the hilarious world of depression). Here’s John’s introduction to our show: “When a loved one dies, the world can become chaos. Everything has changed.…
COVID unified us, in a way. With everyone hurting, it became easier to talk about grief. And we had to talk about it — we couldn’t escape it. Over 600,000 American families lost someone (often more than one person) to the virus. Healthcare workers saw wartime medicine conditions. Whole cities emptied out, the silence punctuated…
