4 Ways to support a loved one in grief for the grief adjacent.
Read moreMyths about Using Your Tools in Recovery, and Grief
In eating disorder recovery, therapy, and grief, we often talk about “using your tools.” Using your (healthy) coping mechanisms is so helpful! Support groups, journaling, expressive arts therapy, utilizing a food plan, hydrating, sleep hygiene, meditation, medication, can all be such helpful tools in your eating disorder recovery and/or grief process! However, sometimes we think that using these tools means we will arrive somewhere, at a destination endpoint, with no more discomfort. That is a myth. Here are some myths about recovery and grief coping tools I’d like to clear up.
Read more6 Tools to Get Through the Holidays When You Are Grieving the Loss of a Loved One
If you are traveling the holiday season without your loved one who has died, it can feel overwhelming to do all the traditions you used to do together. It can feel like one, big, looooong grief trigger. Here’s a thought:
Read more3 Healing Benefits of Using Art with Grief
The art of grief is that art can hold and express emotions and experiences where words fall short. Art can help “get the bad feelings out so that the good feelings can come in.” Art can also provide symbols as medicine…
Read moreEating Disorder Recovery and Grief: when are you done?
Grief, like eating disorder recovery, is individual. Although sometimes it can follow a trajectory like this recovery slogan:
It gets better
Then it gets worse
Then it gets different
Then it gets real different.
There are all kinds of metaphors about how grief is something you learn to carry more gracefully over time. The grief doesn’t get smaller. We grow bigger, around the grief, and learn to live with it differently. Here is a beautiful visual of Dr Lois Tonkin’s model of grief, which shows how the griever grows around the grief…
