by Denise Torgerson | Sep 27, 2021 | Stories
We can’t grieve it all at once. Sometimes we have to let our grief in a bit at a time. Alan Wolfelt, one of the authors featured in our library, calls it dosing.One of our group participants said, “I can’t look at it all at once. It’s too big.”Grief can become...
by Denise Torgerson | Sep 13, 2021 | Stories
It’s interesting to me how pervasive the idea of getting back to “normal” is in our culture. We use words like healing, resilience, transformation, growth. Oh there are so many. I would like to suggest here, that as a griever you have permission to ignore all of those...
by Denise Torgerson | Aug 19, 2021 | Stories
Do you struggle with the fact that you are struggling? Many of us do. We are so very hard on ourselves. Our inner critics are on overdrive. We “should” ourselves into misery. For some reason, we feel like we are not grieving right, or that we should be over our grief...
by Denise Torgerson | Aug 4, 2021 | Stories
And then there are the days when the missing is just more intense. It feels like there is an enormous absence in our life and we just feel like crap. There is nothing we can do about it. We can’t shift into anything that feels positive or hopeful. One of those...
by Denise Torgerson | Jul 13, 2021 | Stories
One of the hardest parts about grieving is that the people around us who love us, and who care about us, try to help us by giving us advice that is not helpful. Don’t get me wrong, I realize that these are good people with big hearts, but they often do not understand...
by Fay Leman | Jun 29, 2021 | Stories
I received a text last night from a dear, long-time friend which said, “I didn’t get a chance to share this with you” – accompanied by a screen shot of an announcement that his uncle had died very suddenly and tragically. For many people, texting and messaging is a...
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