Cope With Grief & Reengage with Life After Loss in 2019
Experience The Power of Mindfulness & Self-Compassion To Help You Care for Yourself While Honoring The Love & Memories You Hold Dear.
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Seeing Death in a New Light
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Grief & Sleep: 7 Tips To Cope With Insomnia After Loss
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Coping with Grief on Valentine’s Day
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Mindful Music Listening: Another Resource for Coping with Grief
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The Fear of Being Left Alone
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Four Things Eckhart Tolle and Thich Nhat Hanh Taught Me About Grief
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9 Ways to Describe Your Loss Through Poetry
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5 Tips To Manage Grief In The New Year, Mindfully
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Grieving My Alcoholic Father: Reflections On My Mindful Journey Through Loss
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The Healing Power of Karma After Loss
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The Magic Meditation Formula
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7 Tips to Support Grieving Children During the Holidays
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Getting Through It: Writing About the Landslide of Grief
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Living in the Space Between: Personal Reflection on Stillbirth Grief
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Losing Yourself in the Grief of a Sibling
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Acceptance: A Personal Quest
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Guilt & Grief: Giving Yourself Mercy When You Feel You Are To Blame
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Greeting Grief with Meditation
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Can Meditation Help With Grief?
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“I Can’t Meditate Anymore”: How Grief Impacts Our Regular Meditation Practice
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Mindfulness and Grief: Leaning Into Love, Loss, and Life
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New Year’s Grief: An At Home Meditation Mini-Retreat
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Cope With Holiday Grief & Boost Your Resilience To Stress
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Is A Grief Support Group Right For You?
MINDFULNESS & GRIEF
Learn How Mindfulness Can Help You In The 2nd Edition of Mindfulness & Grief, The Book That Has Helped Thousands Cope With Grief & Life After Loss...
“Heather Stang offers those who are grieving a wise and practical guide. The stories, teachings and meditations in this book will help you find your own inner strength and awakening heart in the midst of great loss.” TARA BRACH, Ph.D., Author of Radical Acceptance and True Refuge
“When we are more firmly grounded in our bodies, as Heather Stang demonstrates, we are better able literally and metaphorically to find a new footing in the world, and to restore a life of meaning and coherence.” ROBERT A, NEIMEYER, Ph.D., Director, Portland Institute for Loss & Transition and author of Techniques of Grief Therapy
Articles To Help You Cope With Grief Using Meditation
It is normal to feel disoriented, and many of us wonder if we are coping with grief in the “right” way. Grief is like an umbrella—beneath it you will find physical, emotional, spiritual, and social elements—to name a few. You may find it less overwhelming to break down the concept of “coping with grief” into a few manageable components:
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Reduce The Physical Discomfort of Grief
From sore muscles and headaches, to feeling lethargic and breathless, the pain of loss is a whole person event. If your body doesn’t feel good, it is even harder to cope with emotional pain. Try these relaxation techniques.Cope With Ruminating Thoughts
Human beings are thinking animals. But we can’t think our way out of grief. If you feel like your thinking mind is on overdrive, these simple focusing techniques can bring you relief and even turn your stress switch to off.Reduce Emotional Overwhelm & Suffering
The emotional overload that comes with grief can make us feel stuck. Once you learn how to skillfully pay attention to your emotions, you may be surprised by the relief it can bring. Try these practices to reduce emotional stress.Maintain Peace With Others During Challenging Times
Grief impacts the community of people who knew the person that died. It is normal for irritation, frustration, and even anger to arise, as everyone is in pain. Learn how to build compassion – for yourself and for others.Mindfulness & Grief: How To Cope With Life After Loss
Coping with grief may seem like an impossible task. Few words bring comfort, and there is no quick fix for a broken heart. In addition to overwhelming sadness, we often feel vulnerable, disoriented, and maybe even beaten down. You may feel like you have little energy to invest in coping with the pain of loss, and wonder how you would even go about this in the first place. This site is here to help.
To begin, there is no right or wrong way to cope with grief—as long as you are not causing yourself harm. It is a natural process that all of us experience in our own way. The 5 Stages of grief have long been disproved, and time is not what heals grief. It is, in fact, what you do with your time that matters. The mindfulness-based exercises for grief that you find on this site will help you make wise use of that time.
It does not matter if you are new to mindfulness - in fact many people discover mindfulness-based practices during difficult times. Mindfulness for grief is not about whitewashing your pain, or "getting over" your loss. It is about learning how to stay present, cultivate compassion, and make wise choices that will help you cope with this new normal known as life after loss.
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About Heather Stang, MA, C-IAYT
Heather is the author of Mindfulness & Grief. She holds a Masters degree in Thanatology (Death, Dying, and Bereavement) from Hood College in Maryland, and is a certified Yoga Therapist. She has led mindfulness-based grief workshops for organizations such as the National Fallen Firefighters Association and Hospice of Frederick County, and is a member of the Association of Death Education and Counseling. Heather’s mission is to help people who are grieving to stay healthy and benefit from the transformative experience of grief, using mindfulness-based practices, relaxation, and expressive arts. She has an established practice offering Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy sessions, day-long retreats, and 8 Week Yoga for Grief groups. She is based in Maryland.
