How to Take Time to Grieve
This 20-page booklet presents practical approaches on how to take time to grieve. It is designed to be used as a guide for navigating the unique, time-related challenges of grief and loss.
It addresses deeply subjective dynamics, including advocating for your personal time and space, the erratic timelines of grief, returning to work, social time out, and adjusting to how grief can change your worldview.
You may download a free PDF version of the guide by following the steps below.
Inside, you’ll find peer-informed, lived-experience strategies for taking time to grieve and persevering though an experience that cannot be rushed:
Self-Advocacy: Taking agency over your time and negotiating manageable reprieves from professional obligations based on human resource allotments and standard workplace guidelines.
Grief Timelines: Recognizing that grief does not adhere to a convenient schedule. Rather, it takes its course at a pace unaffected by transactional physics.
Returning to Work: Navigating the often delicate practice of resuming your professional pursuits and finding space within each day to be mindful about ongoing grief.
Social Obligations: Recognizing that gatherings and extracurricular public pursuits are optional, and that when grief weighs you down it is OK to stay home.
Pivoting Focus: Understanding that a life-changing loss can shift your perspective. The profundity of grief can highlight new areas of importance as previous concerns become increasingly irrelevant. Over time, the process can reveal pathways for experiencing new directions, topics, and communities.