Anniversary Grief Response: Navigating Grief Anniversaries with Resilience and Healing
Anniversary Grief Response: Navigating Grief Anniversaries with Resilience and Healing

It is that time of the year. Kenneth is beginning to experience overwhelming emotions that do not make sense to him. There have been no recent changes in his life, and the world around him remains unremarkable. Nevertheless, the past few days have been difficult. He barely gets good sleep at night. He feels an unusual exhaustion, physically and mentally, although he keeps pushing through his day. He feels persistent anxiety, irritability, and a lingering sadness weighing on his spirit, so much so that he asks himself, "What in the world is wrong with me?" 

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Finding Hope Amidst Loss and Grief
Finding Hope Amidst Loss and Grief

The loss of a loved one can create a vacuum in our hearts. Although the last thing in our mind when we have just lost someone dear to us, is hope, yet hope forms the basis on which we envision the possibility of recovery after a devastating or tragic event. The thing is, every one of us will experience loss and grief at a given point or several occasions in our lives.

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Chidi NdubuezeGrief. Recovery. Loss, Grief, Hope
Healing from Loss and Grief
Healing from Loss and Grief

One thing to keep in mind while grieving is the fact that healing looks different for everyone. While some might heal faster, others might take longer to recover from the devastating effect of loss and grief. To one, healing might mean remembering our loved one and smiling again. On the other hand, it might mean feeling a sense of relief from the overwhelming emotions experienced by another.

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Chidi NdubuezeLoss and grief, Grief, Healing from grief
The Grieving Process
The Grieving Process

While some will call it the stages of grief, I see it as the grieving process. Those who have experienced painful losses might testify that grief is not a linear path where we go from one stage to the other and be done. I like to view grief more as a process we go through as our brain tries to make sense of this concept of loss and as our body goes through the process of healing from the devastating impact on the various areas of our functioning.

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Grief Responses
Grief Responses

Losing a loved one can be devastating and challenging. With grief come specific changes in our body that we might not fully understand or control. These changes can be emotional, cognitive, behavioral, spiritual, physical, and sometimes overwhelming and confusing. Various factors can impact the intensity and length of the grief we experience, including but not limited to our relationship with the deceased loved one, personality types, belief system, support system, etc.

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Types of Grief
Types of Grief

When we lose something or someone we love dearly, the pain manifests in our body through grief. Thus grief is the emotional, physical, cognitive, or spiritual response to losing someone dear to our heart or something we attach great importance to.

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Chidi NdubuezeGrief. Recovery. Loss