Waves of Grief and Loss

In this video, I am talking about how grief comes in waves… In the beginning, the waves are all-encompassing and you can feel like you are drowning so all you can do is try to breathe, hang on and survive. After a while, maybe months, maybe longer, you’ll find the waves are still powerful enough to wipe you out but they may come slightly further apart and in between, you can start to breathe and learn to function again. You never know what’s going to trigger the next wave of grief and it can hit unexpectedly… It might be a song, a picture, a smell or just about anything that can bring it crashing over you. Somewhere down the line, and it’s different for everybody, you find that the waves still come but they are less frequent and intense. You may even see them coming as an anniversary, a birthday, or Christmas approaches so you can prepare yourself. You learn that somehow you will, again, come out the other side and may even feel strengthened. Personally, I don’t think that the waves ever stop coming and somehow I don’t really want them to as it’s really about remembering the person who we are missing and keeping the love alive. The wave of grief is after all a wave of love… Photo by Kate's Photography ❤️ #katesphotography #griefsupport #wavesofgrief #copinginbereavement #griefeducator #christiangriefsupport Music License: ZX6YF9BHKNMLRQY4