What Does Grief Recovery Mean Exactly? 

There’s a saying in grief recovery that: 'It’s not that the boulder gets smaller, but that our shoulders get stronger'.  To me what this points to is that grief can’t be ‘cured’.  For in order to grief to be cured the loss would have to be erased, which is not possible.  Grief is a response to the psychological ‘injury’ of loss.  The pain of the injury can be healed, but leaves a scar.  But if we grieve in a healthy fashion, our loss can...

Time plus ‘Right’ Action Helps to Heal the Pain of Grief

Distraction Does Not Equal Healing

The myth that those in grief should just stay busy is a lot like myth #1 - Time Heals All Wounds.  And like that myth, staying busy in itself does not promote healing, just as time does nothing but pass unless you do something constructive with it.  But grieving people often hear from other well intended people that if they stay active then grief won’t get a negative hold over their lives.  Thi...