Coping with Grief: Effective Strategies for Healing

8. Find a Balance

Grief and its accompanying emotions have a way of spreading through every moment of our lives. However, healthy grieving is often an active process -- finding a balance between grieving and not grieving can be the difference between healing and letting grief swallow us. Gently finding moments and pockets where we don’t actively grieve can help us slowly move forward. Many people find it helpful to carry keepsakes so that even when not actively grieving, they can feel like they are honoring the loss.

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