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Grief

The loss of a loved one — be it a human being, animal or even some presumed future expectation — is one of life’s greatest worries. Not everyone suffers grief in the same way. Significant amounts of deep pain and anguish can tear up one’s soul. As a result, the human mind tends to develop coping strategies unconsciously designed to avoid pain. In addition to strategies to mitigate pain, we all tend to process grief through a series of stages: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and hopefully reaching a cognitive and emotional level of acceptance. Grief can be prolonged and entrenched, lasting for months or years. Some consider deep loss tantamount to a personal rejection of sorts, all the while knowing rationally it is not so.

Shakespeare so poignantly penned in Macbeth: “Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.” It is critical that we all speak through our grief and not let it rest and become chronically isolated.