The Persona of the Shadow Blog

When we hear the word grief, most of us think immediately about death. But grief belongs to loss, and loss takes many forms.

How do we help our loved-ones during such a challenging time? When a loved-one becomes seriously ill, the complexity of emotions that arise cannot be simply defined. The experience is a personal journey and you will change, immediately. Whether you turn numb, “buck-up”, or fall apart, the world does not stop when someone we love is going down this winding path. Priorities change. Because the you who had time for Netflix marathons and coffee dates with friends, barely has a

I’m hesitant to answer this because I know it won’t be what you want to hear; quite simply “no”, grief never goes away, but we move through it and forward, but never completely away. But there is a choice to be made when it comes to experiencing grief and it’s just that: you must experience it. What is grief? Grief is a process where we experience the loss of what or who we held dear. Grief is not the disappointment of losing something we never had, rather the unsettling of l