Therapy Thoughts to Nurture Your Grief

[@grieftherapist]

I hope these thoughts help you to challenge your relationship with your Grief. Let me know in the comments!! 🙏

[@cliffcooper8332]

That really does make a lot of sense . It’s Going on four years. Since I lost, my wife and still have ups and downs like you’re talking about. You have great insight on how to deal with grief thank you so much. God Bless 🙏

[@Trifle177]

Jo, your channel is the most helpful I have found so far. Thankyou so much

[@jeanmarieguitard202]

Integrating my son's death into who I am now is the hardest. I was his mom and caregiver for decades. Now I feel like I am no one and it's been well over a year. I need to keep working on it. Thank you for you kind and helpful words.

[@DeborahWatts-s4d]

Thank you Jo. I lost my husband of 44 years only 6 weeks ago. Your videos are very helpful. I want to embrace my grief for the love of my life and for myself 😢. Deborah

[@winterlark3986]

I think integration will take the longest time for me. I thought I was gradually feeling better with the occasional set back but on the first anniversary of my loss, I feel like I’ve lost all that ground and am at the beginning of grief again. I didn’t know it would be this way or take so long. It’s painful and I’m tired. Thank you for your video.❤

[@glitterbyink3256]

Very helpful for me. Especially this… everything I hear on the stages of grief ends with acceptance… i will never get there, that is just unrealistic for me… no so just knowing that it’s ok, but instead looking at the end goal as knowing how to live and integrate it into my ‘now life’ of who I am without my son, helps. I am not the same person, I am not a mother or a daughter Because there is no goin back to who I was, and there is no going forward to a ‘nowhere’ place. But maybe, just maybe I can just be here now, and be ok, even if it’s only for a moment. I’m just trying to learn how to live between the moments that take my breath away🕊 thank you 😢

[@pippenlapue9643]

"Saddness is upon me" I love that soo much better than Grief stricken. I will acknowldge that grief does not live in me. I will give it a name and face to prepare myself when I feel/see it coming. I'll walk into another room, splash water on my face, listen to the radio. Anything to keep it at bay. Im trying to use brain recognition exercises. When I find that feeling of relief (not often) I will say out loud to myself. " "remember? This is the way you should always be feeling. Relax, breath and be happy" and just hold on to the feeling for as long as I can. I kiss my daughters picture, it now gives me joy. It scares me when a person comments that they are now just "a shell of who they use to be." I want to believe that who I was is still in me, just dormant. Just needing love, nurturing, tenderness and time. I know it's easier said than done. I love the child anology as well. I will try that too. Since this grief/child maybe with me for the rest of my life. I better make it learn how to behave. Jo, I thank you so much. You have given me so much insight, support and creative techniques towards my recovery/healing in this most horrific time in my life❤❤❤

[@cligman]

This spoke to me in a new way. No matter how rushed I feel by the world around me, I realized it’s ok for me to take time with my grief. I like the Irish saying, “Sadness is upon me.” The sadness of grief can fall on you when you least expect it.

[@Toinette2883]

This made such perfect sense to me and another perspective for me to view my grief. I am an avid gardener and very much looking forward to that video. Thank you Jo for bringing hope that I can get through this horrible journey of grief!

[@chrismccullough8539]

Hi Jo, your sharing and advice are a lifesaver. My partner of 9years died suddenly 3 weeks ago. I am finding dealing with his death very hard, especially as he had pushed me away during the last 2months of his life. I have so many unanswered questions as I navigate the road ahead. Thankfully your videos help me Take one loving step at a time.❤

[@julievalerio4439]

…not acceptance but integration rings very true to me .. thank you Jo

[@Kimberly-fu7kz]

I'm almost a year into losing my husband. He is British & I'm taking him home to be interred with his parents. I know I am honouring him this way, & what I've been doing at home. I 'm stuck in anger because people other than my family bug me. I am doing my grief work, & am not afraid to show tears or my upset. Know it takes time. Taking him will give me some closure, yet I will feel he is far away. I've kept some of him. It's really the hardest part of life. Thanks for your help Jo.

[@BUBBLESPOGO]

I'm am 13 months into losing my precious husband who died suddenly on me. I'm still grieving hard. I'm not the same person anymore. Really found out what my few so called friends were like. Dumped them all. Users. Got rid of the piece of garbage mother in law and only sister of my husband who showed not an ounce of compassion for her only son and only brother, who was always there for them. Horrors. They never showed who they really were until he died. I saw signs of it but never gave it much thought until his death. He used to allude to the fact that they weren't nice people as he did not have a pleasant childhood because of them. My husband was a sweet, loving, helpful man to his ungrateful family members and many others. I will.love him.until the day I die. The Creator will remember him for good snd reward him accordingly.

[@twinwillows2705]

Hi Jo, Your video was eye opening and made logical sense to me. I thank you for sharing your time. My son died 5 years ago. March 11, 2019 is Birthday is Saturday March 30th I made a flower display at our gate in honor of him a few days ago. He enjoyed gardening very much. I have a Crêpe myrtle that he started from a seed. I also dug up some Amarillo bulbs from his house after he died, and they recently bloomed. I will watch more of your videos, and again I appreciate your time.

[@equynenergie]

Very useful perspective…think I’m in middle grief … 14 months since my dearest hubby passed. Always find your videos so so helpful 🙏

[@deborahbarnes1247]

my mom passed in December last year and I miss her so much and grieve Everyday but I remember All the good times we shared and they are instilled inside of me forever more . Thank You..

[@debranicholson9223]

My mom passed 18 months ago..I knew it would be hard..just didn't know how devastating

[@RyochanYamakita]

Thank you❤

[@amakin8806]

I appreciate this I just wish you used more examples.

[@hildebeerens4332]

Very helpful yes, thank you.🙏

[@debranicholson9223]

I am 20 months past mom passing..and I feel such grief again and miss her( and having a mom!) I feel so lonely

[@maryannehaffner3294]

Wow...these growth periods you pointed out resonated with me. I am halfway between a toddler and a young child. Your video makes me feel light and grace. I am nurturing my grief. TY...Grateful. I always feel blessed when you give a kind thoughts, kind words, and a kind heart at each end of the video.❤

[@kimsemple8545]

Thank you Jo...your videos always strike a common sense chord with me and I appreciate your sincerity. I am now 2 1/2 years into grief now and like your associations with toddlerhood...there is a rebuild that has to happen after we lose somebody and emotional regulation is often difficult in the early years...but I do feel I am making progress...thanks again.

[@crystals6352]

As I said in your video short, I nuture my grief by getting a cup of coffee and sitting alone in my car. I think about my loved one and cry. I usually park at a place where I can feel the sun and see some trees. It helps and it has been a dayly routine since he passed a little over a year ago.

[@BUBBLESPOGO]

😢.

[@BUBBLESPOGO]

I'm so sorry😢. I do the same thing It's so hard.

[@crystals6352]

@@BUBBLESPOGO 🙏

[@BUBBLESPOGO]

@@crystals6352 Yes. Thank you Crystal. Please take care. Sincerely,

[@craftygirl17]

My brothers and I are at the part on what to do with my moms ashes, one brother want us to keep them I want to bury her ashes at the cemetery and my other brother hasn’t said what he wants to do, my mom did t put anything in her will on what she wanted us to do with her ashes. This is so hard on me and don’t know what to do with my other brother wanting to keep them he doesn’t have them my oldest brother has them. I don’t feel comfortable keeping them, I just want a nice place to put her to rest, and maybe someday I will be strong enough to leave flowers. I wish she wasn’t cremated I find it creepy in a sense, knowing my mom’s body was burned to a crisp, doesn’t sit good with me at all. It is unsettling to me. This is bringing up my grief and how mom died. I haven’t slept good.

[@erikafranco609]

I'm going threw it everything you said its going on 2 years

[@annegodfrey1717]

Thank you.

[@bb158]

thank you, insightful

[@BUBBLESPOGO]

Its been 13 months since my husband died on me suddenly. Im still not well from the impact of his death and the horrors of dealing with narc mother and sister. I feel that God is my only true friend who cares about my husband and will give him his life back in the resurrection as Jesus promised in John 5:28-29. God will end sin and death in the near future. 1 Corinthians 15:26. Psalms 37;10-11, 29. REVELATION 21:3-4. In the meantime, all i can do is take one day at a time without my sweetie😢

[@HeatherRoss-n8v]

How do you live with grief while Alzheimer's takes away your loved one?

[@MADELENEC1]

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