Pg. 30 2026-27 Health & Wellness Magazine Lincoln Daily News Strategies for Grief Management When we lose someone, we grieve! It is abnormal not to grieve. However, it is important to find ways to manage grief so it is not debilitating. Fortunately, there are many helpful strategies for dealing with loss. This article looks at the grief management strategies offered in several helpful sources on grief. The article “Understanding Grief: How We Mourn, Heal, and Move Forward After Loss” lists several common grief symptoms. Feelings often include shock and numbness, denial and disbelief, anxiety, fear, and distress, intense sadness or longing, anger and rage. Though some may not go through any of these stages and others only experience a few, it is helpful to realize these are all normal stages of grief. The grieving process may make you feel like you are on an emotional roller coaster. As the article “Coping with Grief and Loss: Stages of Grief, the Grieving Process, and Learning to Heal,” affirms, “Instead of a series of stages, we might also think of the grieving process as a roller coaster, full of ups and downs, highs and lows. Like many roller coasters, the ride tends to be rougher in the beginning, the lows may be deeper and longer.” Additionally, the first article on understanding grief notes that, grief can cause physical symptoms due to stress from the loss. These may include a lack of appetite, trembling, sleep disturbance, breathing problems, pressure in the chest, stiffness and headaches. Most of these symptoms are caused by stress and are likely to diminish over time. When you feel both emotionally and physically spent, it can be a challenge to keep up with your daily routine. In the midst of grief, some people withdraw from social
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