First Hour Grief Response

Is grief a mental health disorder? Experts say that it isn’t, but it sometimes feels like it is, especially when it is prolonged. From sleep disruption, distortion of time, decision-making problems, and even making the simplest tasks feel overwhelming, it makes us feel like we are losing our mind! But grief isn’t a malfunction – it is the most deep, human response to loss. Wh...

Am I OK? It’s a question we are afraid to ask out loud:  a question grieving people think about and are asked so many times a day, we lose count! Have you ever walked into a room and suddenly turned around because you have no idea why you were there? Grief can do that to you. It can rearrange our thoughts, scramble our memory, and introduces unfamiliar emotions that can ...

Let’s just own it. We are a people united by one thing right now. Grief. It’s why you’re looking at this blog, visiting our website, searching for answers. We are walking the line of functional grief.

When I did some digging on functional grief, my thoughts immediately went to the arena of addiction. I’ve heard about people being functional alcoholics or functional...