Mourning, grief and loss

“A shared grief becomes half a grief.”

-Ann Sinko

We all have the experience of attachment and loss. Grief is an extremely complex process. There is no right or wrong way to grieve. There is no time limit on grief. The meaning of the loss flows slowly through the system like a wave. The bigger the wave is that is moving through our system, the bigger the emotions that follow. Some will downplay the importance of the loss by minimizing. Some will convert feelings into physical symptoms by somatizing. Others will attempt to avoid grief by replacing it with a new attachment. Still, others will feel anger or sadness in relation to other people by displacing those emotions. When we can experience the futility of having lost someone or something we loved and really mourn it, that’s when we start to heal.