Tag: acknowledgement

When you are part of a couple, it is best to know that conflict is inevitable and baked into the cake of relationship. The issue is not whether you have conflict, but rather how you deal with it when it arises.

Let’s first review some unhealthy ways of fighting that lead to a further divide: physical explosions and/or physical contact during anger, shutting down, avoiding, criticizing, blaming, yelling, using abusive name-calling or words, using past experiences as evidence to make a point, referring to other people’s opinions to support your argument, public demonstrations of anger, being dismissive and belittling, starting your statements with "You always..." or "You never..."

Loss hurts. Grief is challenging. How we handle life's changes and hardships matters—both to us and to those around us.

As a grief specialist, I believe that there are four main keys to healing from loss:

* Processing grief emotions well
* Taking good care of ourselves
* Managing changing relationships
* Taking healthy grief breaks

Most people have heard of the first three. When I mention, "Grief breaks," however, I tend to get furrowed brows and tilted heads.