pain – Intuitive Understanding

What to Do When Mother’s Day Isn’t Happy

Tammy Adams — Fri, 08 May 2020 02:03:07 +0000

In this guest blog I am sharing the wisdom of Grief Recovery Specialist, Allison James, from The Grief Recovery Institute. I hope you find this blog helpful. Do commercials for Mother’s Day flowers or greeting cards put a knot in your stomach? Do Mother’s Day posts on social media make you think, “What’s so happy about it?” Do you wish you could ignore the whole week leading up to the…

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Death of a long term spouse. Legacy of love or monument to misery

Tammy Adams — Sat, 01 Feb 2020 18:36:00 +0000

In this guest blog I am sharing the wisdom of Grief Recovery Specialist, Russell Friedman, from The Grief Recovery Institute. I hope you find this blog helpful. When long-term relationships end due to death of one of the partners, there is an inevitable adjustment to the new reality of life without someone who has always been there. Adaptation to the radical changes in life following the death…

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10 Reasons We Choose to Stay Stuck in Our Pain

Tammy Adams — Tue, 01 Oct 2019 19:46:59 +0000

Unresolved grief is everywhere. You can find it in the plot of a novel, the script of a movie, and the dialogue of a play. We may see it in our friends and our 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…

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An Awareness of Grief

Tammy Adams — Sun, 01 Sep 2019 19:41:52 +0000

Annual grief statistics are staggering. Exploring strictly Canada and the US, there are an estimated 16 million grievers due to the death of a loved one (approximately 3.2 million deaths per year with an average of 5 grievers per death); 2.6 million grievers due to divorce (not including the number of children who also grieve); and 40 million grievers due to the death of a pet.

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Why a Change in Health is a Form of Grief

Tammy Adams — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 00:40:49 +0000

In this guest blog I am sharing the wisdom of Gina Baretta, Certified Grief Recovery Specialist®, and edited by Ashley Mielke, Owner and Director of The Grief & Trauma Healing Centre. I hope you find this blog helpful. Our bodies and health will naturally progress and change throughout our lives. Health could be affected by diets, injuries, accidents or unexpected illnesses. Personally…

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Many don’t understand grief and what it takes away

Tammy Adams — Sat, 01 Jun 2019 19:20:03 +0000

Have you ever lost a job, gone through a divorce, relocated, experienced a major financial change, or had someone close to you die? Are you aware, due to these experiences, you may have experienced grief? Can you identify what grief may have taken from you? If you have ever experienced an emotional loss of any kind, there is a very good chance you have experienced grief.

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Grief: Exploring the “F” words #3 – Familiarity

Tammy Adams — Fri, 01 Mar 2019 19:49:04 +0000

In this guest blog I am sharing the wisdom of Grief Recovery Specialist, Russell Friedman, from The Grief Recovery Institute. I hope you find this blog helpful. What you practice is what you get good at! The Grief Recovery Handbook makes constant reference to the fact that you must grieve and complete your relationship to your pain. Lacking grief recovery skills, grievers often begin to identify…

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Losing a pet: Grieving the loss of a friend

Tammy Adams — Tue, 01 Jan 2019 18:40:02 +0000

In this guest blog I am sharing the wisdom of Grief Recovery Specialist, Russell Friedman, from The Grief Recovery Institute. I hope you find this blog helpful. Losing a pet can be one of the most painful experiences a person can have. There is much talk in today’s world about unconditional love. It would be wonderful if human beings were capable of such a thing. The sad truth is that we fall…

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Reaction to Loss: If I start crying will I be able to stop?

Tammy Adams — Mon, 03 Dec 2018 05:11:39 +0000

In this guest blog I am sharing the wisdom of Grief Recovery Specialist, Russell Friedman, from The Grief Recovery Institute. I hope you find this blog helpful. There are many misconceptions about the pain associated with significant emotional loss. Some relate to the relationship of others, for example: “It’s not fair to burden them with my pain,” or “You have to be strong for others” [mom, dad…

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Am I equipped for happiness? Holding onto pain?

Tammy Adams — Thu, 01 Nov 2018 20:34:37 +0000

In this guest blog I am sharing the wisdom of Grief Recovery Specialist, Steve Moeller, from The Grief Recovery Institute. I hope you find this blog helpful. Some of us have become very good at holding onto pain. We may have unresolved loss-of-trust experiences from childhood that keep us in an almost perpetual state of acceptance of pain as a permanent condition. Many of us keep dragging the…

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