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Most often, when we consider grief, we associate it with something “bad” or “negative.”  Someone we love died or left.  We lost a job.  Some sort of natural disaster took our home.  We experienced a loss of health or ability.
What we don’t often consider is that grief can also occur with something we deem “good” [...]

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Don’t fear change, embrace it. ~ Anthony J. D’Angelo
In my last post, I talked about unexpected grief that occurs after we start to feel better and think, “well, maybe I’m over this…”  In that situation we’ve been grieving and that grief itself isn’t as unexpected as the length or timing of it.
The other form of [...]

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Grief can pop up at times when we least expect it and send us reeling, waving our arms wildly to gain our balance again.  Or it can knock us on our ass trying desperately to catch our breath again. 
Unexpected grief tends to catch us off guard in two different ways.  The first happens some period [...]

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