Healing Grief
Reclaiming Life After Any Loss
Chapter One
GRIEF AND LOSS
No matter where we live or what language
we speak, we share a common
experience with everyone else on the planet—the
loss of someone or something close to us.
Loss can be sudden, without warning, or predictable,
and still we are unable to prevent it
from happening. All loss brings up feelings
and memories, and for some these experiences
may seem uneventful, while for others
such loss changes the course of their lives
forever. When someone or something is
gone from our lives, we experience an array
of physical, emotional, and spiritual sensations
known as grief. Webster's Dictionary
defines grief as "a deep and poignant distress
caused by or as if by bereavement; a cause of
such suffering; a mishap, misadventure, trouble, annoyance;
an unfortunate outcome: disaster."
Why is there grief and why do we have to go through it?
Grief serves a very important purpose. It is a reaction to our
loss. It represents our unde ... read full excerpt from: Healing Grief ebook
