Understanding and Managing Grief, December 8 - December 14, 2024

Best selections from Grief Healing's X feed this week:

My heart weighed so heavy in my chest that it felt as if I was drowning. I needed to feel less alone, so I turned to Facebook and asked others to share their experiences of birth trauma. "Are you looking for stories about stillbirth?" one grandmother asked, and that is how The Loss Mother's Stone began. Through 'The Loss Mother's Stone,' mothers share their grief from losing a child to stillbirth « NPR

"As December rolled around, I felt my body grow heavy with grief. This one month of the year, without fail, wreaks havoc on my nervous system. I get irritated, experience brain fog, and find myself more emotional. I describe it to my therapist as a sinking sensation, like I’m slipping into a dark hole, or I’m trapped behind a thick sheet of glass, separate from others. The darkness usually descends the second week of December and lets up in early January, right after my late brother’s birthday." Making Peace With Annual Grief Triggers « Psychology Today 

Grief exposes failures in how we define family, revealing the urgent need to recognize friends and others. When healthcare systems make compassion a commodity, vulnerable communities are disproportionately harmed. Displacement and housing instability contribute to mental health crises. The Politics of Loss: What Grief Reveals « Psychology Today

Whenever there is a loss of something significant in our lives, we suffer grief. When an intimate love relationship ends – whether we were married, living together with a partner or significant other, or committed to another as part of a couple – the separation can be overwhelmingly painful. The ending of a love relationship is yet another kind of death, and it is just as worthy of our understanding and support. Gathered here are a number of resources that can help. Death of a Love Relationship: Suggested Resources « Grief Healing 

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