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Top 5 Tips for Talking About Grief
by Andrea Birskovich
Grief. It’s something everyone experiences, and yet we have trouble talking about it openly. If you’ve ever lost - a person, pet, relationship, job, belief system, home, health, way of being, identity, or purpose - you’ve likely experienced grief. This e-book offers 5 easily digestible tips for talking about something so multifaceted, intimate, and ultimately transformative. I’m sharing these tips from my own experiences with grief and loss, and they are merely suggestions based on what worked for me. Everyone’s journey and experience with grief is valid.
With gratitude,
Andrea
Read my chapter about my brother Matt’s passing
My essay “Indisputable Knowing” was included in the 2023 anthology Deserts to Mountaintops: Our Collective Journey to (re)Claiming Our Voice from Soul Speak Press.
“You don't have to experience grief, but you can only avoid it by avoiding love. Love and grief are inextricably intertwined.”
— David Kessler, Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief
“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”
— C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
“We run from grief because loss scares us, yet our hearts reach toward grief because the broken parts want to mend.”
— Brene Brown, Rising Strong: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution
“The pain of grief is just as much part of life as the joy of love: it is perhaps the price we pay for love, the cost of commitment.”
— Dr Colin Murray Parkes, Bereavement: Studies of Grief in Adult Life
About Andrea
Andrea experienced the transformative power of grief following the successive deaths of her father and baby sister in her pre-teen years, and her beloved older brother in her early 30s. In seeking a reprieve from a general sense of overwhelm in her early 20s, Andrea found herself watching her thoughts and counting her breaths in a yoga class almost by accident. Since then, she has continued to journey deeper into herself to awaken and reconnect with her intuition, nurture her innate gifts, and rediscover her soul’s purpose. She embraces her path as the Resilience Guide seeking to make meaning from her pain and spotlighting opportunities for soul growth. Exploring a variety of kinetic, spiritual, and energetic practices, Andrea aims to empower others by sharing what she learns. She’s currently on a path to shed light on the strength and endurance within all of us.