What do you do when the unthinkable happens?Life is plagued by crisis and trials. Loved ones die. Eventually everyone experiences the gut wrenching loss of someone close to them passing.
Mom, dad, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, grandpas and grandmas, friends...people we love. The pain is real. It physically tears the lining of your gut, that kind of emotional stress. It also causes short term brain damage- making remembering and concentrating difficult. How can we move forward in the pain and use it as a catalyst for growth? When we look at the natural world, death is a part of the circle of life. When something dies the cycle continues and there is new growth. This can be true for our lives as well. As nature models for us... new growth can come out of death. The book Grief 2 Growth, Planted, Not Buried: How to Survive & Thrive After Life's Greatest Challenges, provides readers with a clear path to success. Brian D. Smith: author and life coach, offers a grief program of simple and effective habits like "start with gratitide," and "feed my mind," to get our brains to process through the pain and emotions. As well as "exercise" and "meditation" to support the physical needs of the body. I love the holistic nature of the program Smith offers. For those of you interested in more of what Smith has to offer you can check out his website. The book is a compact and easy to read guide to dealing with your own grief and Smith shares many of his own ideas about the grief he experienced losing his daughter at 15. Having walked through a season of grief in my own life, I see value in being equiped with tools like Grief 2 Growth discusses. At the time I experinced loss, I was not educated on the grieving process and held onto a lot of anger that was not healthy. I know now that it is important to embrace the grieving process to keep yourself healthy, processing the pain so that it doesn't get stored in your body. This is a great book to educate yourself on how to turn tragedy into a growing experience. The more we educate ourselves, the more resillient we can be in the face of trials. You can pick up a copy of the book on Amazon. #Grief2Growth Disclosure of Material Connection: I received this book free from Speakeasy. I was not required to write a positive review. The opinions I have expressed are my own.
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