One of the biggest myths about grief is that grief is an emotional reaction or state of being. When people label grief as just “emotional,” they are minimizing grief, how much the mourner is affected by grief and the extent of the struggles the mourner has to endure. Grief affects much more than just the emotional state of the person after a death.
Mourners are more than one-dimensional victims. Grief affects the whole person just as the relationship with the loved one who died affected every aspect of the mourner’s life. We miss the person in the following ways:
- Emotionally
Mourners love or have emotional ties to the person who died. Therefore, the love we still have in our heart for the person needs to be expressed–even after their passing. Death doesn’t end our relationship with the person; death changes the relationship from one dependent upon the physical presence of…
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