Day 19: Grief is not a Disorder Grief is many things AND it is not a disorder. Grief is our innate biology working to navigate life transitions and change. This doesn’t mean that grief doesn’t feel brutal and unbearable at times. For some people, a grief experience can feel worse than anything else they have been diagnosed with in the past. What makes grief feel like a mental health disorder is when the grief itself hasn’t moved or shifted. When grief stagnates in us, this s

Young children teach us adults so much about grief. As long as children are provided the space to feel their emotions (and yes, that can be difficult), they allow their grief to happen, to move, and to oscillate from moments of releasing their pain (yes, this might be a tantrum, wailing, screaming) to the downturn of that release (looking like they are just fine/able to play/as if they have forgotten all about what just happened). Young children have not yet absorbed the perv