Is Your Grief in the Things? #grief @grieftherapist

I have have great difficulty letting "things" go. How about you?

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Who is Jo?
I wanted to share with you why I am dedicated to supporting your Grief. My journey with Grief began when I experienced life changing losses early in my life. I was Grief illiterate and scared of the BIG feelings of Loss. This left me in a really dark state for a long time. I lived with the belief that life was filled with pain… that I would never feel better.
My Grief warped and changed relationships with myself, others and my sense of safety in the world.
I have done grief all wrong. I did it alone, silently, hidden, dangerously, and without knowledge or support
As a Therapist I have worked for years providing Birth work.. I came to recognize that there are many defining moments in birth.
When loss intersected my Birthwork I came to believe that equal and opposite must also be true…..There are also many defining moments in Loss.
Here was when professional meets personal!!!
This realization forced me to do some long overdue personal Grief work. I researched, studied, learned, trained and cried my way through all my unprocessed Grief.
This became what is called a Moment of Obligation….. I was now obligated to share these skills and insights as a professional Grief Worker. I know that others can benefit from what I have experienced and learned about Grief. I have valuable lived experience and professional training to lead you to change your relationship with your Grief..
I base my all work on the practical and emotional elements that I know now I needed when Grief ran my life.

Let’s Do Grief Differently!
Grief needs a Revolution.
Welcome to the Grievolution! 🤝

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[marsgrrrl]

I’m two and a half years in to having lost my son, and I’m a big grief hoarder. I was never much of a hoarder before so it feels quite uncomfortable and burdensome, but I feel a need to keep his things as they are as much as possible because ‘that’s all I have left of him.’ I know that’s not true, but in some ways it is: how he stored his things reveals his part of who he is, and I fear moving them means losing those memories. I do have an awareness that it may not always feel this way, so I am sometimes accepting of how I feel and what I need. Other times I wrestle with myself about it. The most heavy part of it is it feels like a burden: I’m going to have to keep all these things the way they are forever - which again may not be true, but the thought of not having them there is very distressing, even if I have to work around them all day long.

[sherrykirk]

Pictures, and I will keep them forever.

[rozanidesignsmasquerade]

Interesting. I’m not a grief hoarder. Thank goodness for that. It seems too unbearable to spend the rest of my life grieving. The grief remains in the background and will appear from time to time. It is only human to grieve but to be overcome by it would defeat my life’s purpose to embrace who I am once again. There will be more grief as time goes on. I am more able to accept and allow it to eventually dissipate. It is doable under my personal circumstances and a new awakening after three years. I am back to taking care of myself, my boundaries and my personal interests. Thanks, Jo. 💖

[NikkiHjorth]

Their chattels. Getting through it slowly. It's emotional bringing an end to an era.

[MARCYSHANNON]

I am a grief horder. I couldn't let my grandmas things go and now my mom just passed and I want all of her.

[jasminsantiago]

Ty for your videos i lost my son 2 years ago and am still hurting dont know what am doing or acting lost i will say

[sallybrown]

I haven’t gotten rid of my 30 year old mattress because 15 months ago my husband died in bed. So I found comfort somehow. He loved his bed. But I think I need to get a new one and it’s a tough thing for me to do.

[maryellenstankovich]

Things aren't that important. It's the memories you have in your heart.

[cynthiapate]

I was able to give up most of my don’s things because I made sure they all went to others who needed or valued the items. Otherwise, I don’t think I could have given the up.

[lilove]

Is holding onto family heirlooms the same a grief hoarding? “Useful” things like jewelry, watches, kitchen items?

[sharonlujan]

I lost my x husband boys to another woman
I put our son’s wedding picture on the wall w my dad!!