What is Grief?
Hey Faithers,
Happy Wednesday! I hope on this hump day you have taken time for yourself!
These last couple of weeks for HealingSheGotFaith have been busy. We have had community events, we are so close to opening our building, and we have ensured you all get these blogs and podcasts weekly!
We have been in the community giving away our "Everyone Has A Story Book Bundle" and promoting our programs, but I observed that people kept asking me what type of grief we help with.
This warmed my heart because it lets me know that people have been healing and learning more about grief. It helps me to know that people are serious about living through their grief. Plus, this is such an excellent question! These are the questions we need to ask.
With that question being asked multiple times, I wanted to take the time to explain HealingSheGotFaith and grief.
First, let's start with grief; if you look up grief on our best friend, Google, it is defined as "deep sorrow, especially caused by someone's death. Trouble or annoyance." How HealingSheGotFaith defines grief is: "Any loss that you have experienced that has affected your life." Some of the things we have learned are that the stages of grief are not created for the bereaved but the person on their deathbed. The stages of grief were never designed for those of us who are grieving. (Check out Death & Dying by Elisabeth Kubler Ross and Grief is Love by Marisa Renee Lee). We also learned that grief is beyond death. In our podcast, we have a segment called grief beyond death because we love to learn about people who are grieving but are not grieving a death. We can grieve a lost house, a relationship, a friendship, our kids grieved their everyday life during COVID because they had to go to school remotely, kids grieved seeing their family members, and we even grieve our old selves. We might have been a certain way before the trauma; now, we have become someone different, and sometimes we miss that old self. Or let's say you now have an illness or diagnosis that affects your actions. Maybe you miss when you used to be able to eat cheese or run a mile. All of this is grief.
Our goal at HealingSheGotFaith is to educate people about grief and provide a safe place for grieving adults. We were created based on the limited resources for adults dealing with grief! We believe that our clients and humans have the right to grieve and feel what they feel. Our founder was someone who needed the resources while she grieved her mom, and the state she was in literally gave her some basic ass resources, and she had to fight tooth and nail to find resources for her and her family. Once she healed, she was able to create a place for people like her and the scenario she was in. HealingSheGotFaith started as a blog, but it blossomed into a community resource.
This weekend was beautiful because HealingSheGotFaith was reminded of who we are and our "WHY." It can become very overwhelming when planning all these events, but to be reminded by everyday people is beautiful. So we are here today to remind you that your grief matters and that we all grieve! Knowing yourself and loving yourself is a huge part of understanding your grief!
We can heal and live with our grief! This is all part of loving us the way we love the world.
Please remember that we love you, but more importantly, we want you to love you the way you love the world.
-LeLe,
Founder & your local self-love advocate.
