7 Mindset Shifts to Help You Ride the Waves of Grief

If you’ve been touched by death, my heart feels for yours. The loss of a loved one, a parent or siblings is devastating. Many people are impacted by grief when they lose friends, colleagues and pets. Everyone is affected differently by different losses and grieves differently in response to their losses. Those griefs can bring new griefs as you move through phases of life and new experiences without your loved one. Each lifecycle event or milestone can trigger latent emotional tidal waves. Grief is an ongoing journey with no end. It’s about learning to accept and live with this new reality.

Depression, Grief and LossEsther GoldsteinJuly 19, 2021Comment

Permission To Grieve

Grief is hard, but living trapped in unacknowledged grief is worse. Jackie is a Medical Resident in her final year who is struggling with ambiguous grief. Nobody has died, but she has been suffering on her recent shift in Obstetrics & Gynecology. If you’ve been struggling with anxiety or chronic stress you might relate to Jackie, and perhaps you will realize, that it could be related to your unmet need to grieve lost hope. Please be gentle with yourself. Give yourself the psychoeducation, time and space you need to heal and process your grief.

Delayed Grief: It’s Never too Late to Process

Did you know that it’s very normal to experience delayed grief? Feelings of loss can bubble up inside us years after we thought we we were done grieving. Many of us experience it and have no idea that our current pain is linked to unprocessed grief. For most people, the grief process is a lifelong journey, one that doesn’t end at a prescribed time or milestone. Waves of painful emotions can kick up decades later, causing worry and confusion, when you have never learned that grief is a normal part of life.

Grief and Loss, DepressionEsther GoldsteinJuly 19, 2021delayed grief, ambiguous grief, adult grief, processing griefComment

Mothers Day As An Emotional Orphan

Are you feeling a rumbling of emotions today, on mothers day?

You aren’t alone. The day today can come with a range of emotions, and here I explain what today may be like for you. If you’ve had somewhat of a difficult dynamic with your mother or the nurturers in your life, and are looking to find some ease and peace on your mind and body, I invite you to read this now.

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Why a Semicolon? A blog about Suicide Awareness and Hope

Suicide Awareness, Trauma, Grief and Loss, Emotional WellnessEsther GoldsteinSeptember 1, 2020suicide awareness, mental health and anxiety reliefComment

Why Racism Isn't a Personal Issue, It's a Trauma Issue

Racism isn’t a personal opinion, it’s a trauma based opinion. Racial Trauma is a term that refers to emotional distress that results from traumatization and harm done to someone due to racism and discrimination.

In this blog I share some of my input and hope we can learn from each other as we work together towards a more whole, supportive social. Yes, black lives matter. Yes, people of color are important. We can keep this conversation going to promote change.

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