There are so many misconceptions about what it is, what it entails and as soon as someone says “You should forgive them.” I’m willing to bet a big wall of resistance or a barrage of thoughts come flooding in. Plus, if you’ve been raised in Christian circles you may just have some extra guilt and … Read more
We talk a lot about grief when it comes to death, or even divorce, but we don’t often name the grief that comes from losing a friendship. Maybe it was sudden. Maybe it was a slow drifting apart. Maybe there wasn’t even a big fight, just silence where there used to be laughter, texts, and … Read more
Something I’ve learned as a Grief Recovery Specialist is this: You can’t truly move through grief in a healthy way without honesty. That means looking at a situation, or a relationship, for what it really was/is: both the good and the bad. No one is all good, and no one is all bad. In grief recovery, we … Read more