The goals you set today may start to resemble a life you can bear again...learn seven tips to help you along your grief journey. https://bit.ly/459zfAR
Start healing after loss with these gentle, practical steps. Find guidance on managing grief, embracing routines, documenting your journey, and building a supportive community.
In this Episode:
- 03:22 - Road Trip to Florida: Skunk Ape and Strawberry Shortcake
- 07:00 - Goals After Grief: Starting Where You Are, By Lucy Tate
- 15:48 - The Weight of Grief: Lessons in Compassion and Loss by Jeffry Fischer, RN
- 21:34 - Outro
Incremental Goals Lead Forward
When the noise fades, what you’re left with are quiet, flickering choices. They don’t ask you to be productive or even hopeful. They ask you to stay. And one way to do that is to pick a direction, however small, and move toward it with all the gentleness you can manage.
Lucy Tate shared with us seven ways we can form small, incremental goals to get our feet back under us after a loss. You can also read it in its entirety in this blog post.
The Weight of Grief: Lessons in Compassion and Loss
In his American Journal of Nursing article, Jeffry Fischer, BSN, RN shared his experience with a dying pancreatic cancer. This particular situation unearthed Jeffry’s own unresolved grief “attempting to steal [his] compassion” as he shielded his heart. He wrote that “for the rest of us, “it takes courage to carry on with that weight, to let it shape us rather than consume us, to find meaning in memories without being buried by them.”
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