When you’re grieving, hurting, sad and in intense pain, you want relief from the pain. You might ask yourself how long am I going to feel like this?  This episode will look deeper into the answer to this question. 

Everybody grieves differently. People who experience the same loss, and within the same family will grieve differently. My husband and I grieve differently.

Don’t give in to the pressure from others who are judging or imposing their timeline or rushing you to get through grief. Remember they are not the authority on your grief. You are.

If you’re moving through grief faster, slower, or differently don’t compare yourself with anyone else. 

You have to follow your unique path and not put unrealistic expectations on yourself about how long it should take for you to move through your grief.  Your process will take as long as it takes As you move through grief at your own unique pace, your love for your departed one will move with you.   

We have to help ourselves move forward by giving ourselves permission to feel the fullness of our grief. Feel the pain, sit with it breathe with it, wrestle with it. But Go through the process. Don’t resist it. or suppress it. Allow ourselves to cry when we need to cry, to release the pain, confusion, agony anger, guilt, and all the other emotions when may come up. 

That’s part of doing your grief work and know that it’s okay to laugh and express those emotions as well. Don’t feel guilty about those when they come up

That’s how over time, you turn your pain into love.  It’s that love that will carry you into the next day and the day after that, and the next.  

The reality is that there is no timeline for how long we will grieve our loss.  Our grief will take as long as it takes.

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