- Introduction
- Understanding Grief
- People Grieve Differently
- The Brain Fog of Grief
- The Vocabulary of Grief
- Grievers Don’t Need to be Fixed
- Misconceptions About Grief
- There Are No Orderly and Predictable Stages In Grief
- When Caring People Say Dumb Things When You’re Grieving
- What to Say to Others When You’re Grieving
- The Impact of Who you Lost and How you Lost Them
- Heavy Grief Days
- The Grief Letter
- Ways to Remember Them
- Permissions for Grievers
- Creating Bright Spots in the Midst of Grief
- Why Are Many Grievers Not Comfortable Crying In Front of Others?
- Why Grievers Don’t Need to Be Strong
- Do I Just Need Time to Heal From Grief?
- Why Do Grieving People Get the Message They Shouldn’t Be Sad?
- Is Staying Busy Good for Grief?
- The Isolation of Grief
- Can You Fill the Void Left by the Death of Loved One?
- How Long Does the Pain of Grief Last?
- How Do You Get Over Grief?
- I Don’t Want to Forget My Loved One Who Died
- Relationships Change After Loss
- Why Don’t Friends and Family Understand Your Grief?
- How to Tell Others What You Need in Your Grief
- Grief Can Cause You to Re-evaluate Relationships
- I Lost My Spouse and My Friends
- All the Phases in the Grief Journey
- I’m Grieving and Just Barely Surviving
- Why Do I Feel Like I Am Just Existing in My Grief?
- When Will I Be Ready for Grief Counseling?
- Can You Heal Your Grief?
- Living Again After Losing a Loved One
- How Grief Affects Mental Health
- Grief & Depression
- How Trauma Affects Your Grief
- Co-Dependency and Grief
- Should I take medication for my grief?
- The Uniqueness of Grieving A Suicide
- Suicide Shock: I Can’t Believe They Did It
- Feeling Blame and Shame After a Suicide
- The Abandonment of Suicide
- The Stigma of Suicide
- Interview with widow who lost two husbands by suicide
- Losing Your Husband to Suicide
- What To Do With Your Loved One’s Belongings After They Die
- No Cost Financial Coaching & Planning for Widows: Chris Bentley
- Hope When Shattered By Grief
- Answers to Your Questions About Grief
- Introduction
- Is Being Angry at God a Sin After My Loved One Died?
- Where Did My Peace, Joy and Gratitude Go after I lost my loved one?
- Can Grief and Hope Co-Exist?
- Why Does God Heal Some People But Not Others?
- Is Suicide an Unforgivable Sin?
- Why Do I Dislike Platitudes and Bible Verses?
- Why Did God Let My Loved One Die?
Relationships After Loss
5 Episodes
All Series
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Foundations Of Grief
14 Episodes -
Misconceptions About Grief
12 Episodes -
Relationships After Loss
5 Episodes -
The Grief Journey
6 Episodes -
Grief & Mental Health
5 Episodes -
Grieving A Suicide
6 Episodes -
Conversations On Grief
4 Episodes -
Grief Talks
1 Episodes -
Questions Grieving Christians Ask
8 Episodes
Relationships After Loss
5 Episodes
Episode 1 : Relationships Change After Loss
Introduction to Relationships After Loss
After a significant loss, we are usually hit with a lot of sudden changes, and then we find out that our relationships can change too. The secondary loss of friendships or family relationships on top of our primary loss can increase the sense of isolation and loneliness.
Some of the ways relationships can be impacted:
- The people you thought would show up for you didn’t.
- The people you didn’t expect to be there were.
- People may be awkward around you or don’t know what to say so they avoid you
- People may say things that you feel are hurtful and you may feel misunderstood
- You may not be invited to things because people think it could remind you of your loss or you may not want to attend events that remind you of your loss
- Family members and friends may judge how you grieve or may be full of advice for you.
- If you lost a child, your friend group may be a constant reminder of that loss if they have children too. If you lost a spouse, your friendships with other couples may change because you feel awkward with them or they feel awkward with you.
It’s complicated, right? And everyone’s situation is different. This can be a good time to reflect on how your relationships have been impacted, possibly reevaluate relationships and build new ones.
In this series, we want to help you understand what may be happening with your relationships, Most of the time, problems are caused due to our friends or family members misunderstanding what grieving people need and our inability to tell them what we need. So we are going to take a realistic look at your relationships and give you ways to help your friends and family help you.
Let’s go!