Lionheart Grief Coaching

Everyone knows the phrase, “when one door closes, a window opens.” It’s an encouraging concept generally used to describe how good things/opportunities show up in our lives in the midst of disappointment.

But in the context of grief, that saying holds a more difficult truth. We can refuse to feel our grief by distraction, suppression, and/or numbing agents (such as drugs and alcohol, but in more innocent mediums such as staying busy and filling your time with caring for others). 

The pain of our grief doesn’t go away when we use these tools; it just gets creative in how it shows up. It comes through our collective windows in the form of uncontrolled rage, substance abuse, broken relationships, depression, anxiety, and other disorders that seek to create a sense of control in the chaos like OCD.

We can try to medicate our grief in a variety of ways, but that only touches the symptoms. Until we open the door to grief and feel the full weight of our loss, it will continue to find open windows to come through, more often than not, in less healthy ways.