August 30th is National Grief Awareness Day. This day focuses on awareness of grief, which can be a complex and unpredictable experience that affects people differently. Likewise, there are different ideas about how we each move through our grief, about how we mourn...
What does it mean to survive the loss of someone to suicide or substance? It’s got to be more than continued breathing… more than just not dying ourselves. At EricsHouse, we believe that the grief journey is not something that should or, even, can be done alone. It...
From earliest childhood we learn to avoid pain. As we grow, we engage in the natural instinct to block pain and suffering – especially in the West, where we learn to seek rational structures for our emotions and control them. But grief after traumatic loss can’t be...
Often when we lose someone we love we are encouraged to move quickly through our grief, to try to fix our pain, to try to avoid our deepest sorrows, and to “move on.” Approaching our pain in these ways dishonors the love we share with our loved ones. While our...
Our “The Journey Onward” Men’s Group just finished our weekend retreat in Sedona. It was powerful, moving, and exhausting. We had decided as a group to make our focus self-forgiveness. That’s a pretty tall order for a weekend, but, as I’ve observed, a pretty common...
Losing a loved one is heartbreaking. Grieving is tiring, hard work with no linear process or guidelines to follow. While you may take time off to mourn, you will likely have to return to work eventually. This can prove challenging for various reasons, from having...
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