Feeling Stuck – Intuitive Understanding

Children and Loss

Tammy Adams — Sun, 15 Jan 2023 19:44:20 +0000

As children, we learn how to navigate life by what we hear, observe, and experience. What is the cost of sharing misinformation with our children? Could there be a better way? Up to the age of nine we have little interest in cognitively understanding what we experience. Nor do we have the skills, or abilities, to process many of life’s significant events. Our well-meaning parents, grandparents…

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10 Reasons We Choose to Stay Stuck in Our Pain

Tammy Adams — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 19:43:53 +0000

Unresolved grief is everywhere. In the plot of a novel, the script of a movie, and the dialogue of a play. We may see it in our friends/coworkers through their lack of joy or motivation. The cost of unresolved grief is significant. It can literally steal everything from us including our ability to fully enjoy the life we have been given. It can inhibit us from identifying and sharing our…

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6 Myths Keeping You Stuck in Your Grief (part 3)

Tammy Adams — Fri, 01 Jul 2022 19:43:48 +0000

In the previous article, 6 Myths Keeping You Stuck in Your Grief (part 2), we discussed how isolating yourself from others and waiting for time to heal our wounds keeps us stuck in our grief. Our emotional reaction depends on the unique relationship we had with the individual, or the event, which caused our grief. Additionally, our grief is influenced by what we have witnessed, heard…

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6 Myths Keeping You Stuck in Your Grief (part 2)

Tammy Adams — Wed, 15 Jun 2022 19:39:55 +0000

In the previous article, 6 Myths Keeping You Stuck in Your Grief (part 1), we discussed how our emotional reactions depend on the unique relationship we had with the individual, or to the event, which caused our grief. Additionally, our grief is influenced by what we witnessed, heard, or experienced. The 6 myths are universal. While most of us are familiar with them they have not been…

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6 Myths Keeping You Stuck in Your Grief (part 1)

Tammy Adams — Tue, 07 Jun 2022 19:41:48 +0000

In Russel Friedman’s blog[i] of February 2013, he recalls ‘More than 30 years ago, in a speech, John W. James, Founder of The Grief Recovery Institute said, “Grief is the most off-limit topic for conversation in the English-speaking Western World.”’ Now, 35 years after this speech and with more than 500,000 copies of our books in homes and libraries, it seems little has changed as to how people…

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