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Steps to grieving process

I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me,” comes from Philippians 4:13.  Read this way, the world’s responsibilities are not on our shoulders. It is not about all the things we think we can do; it is about what we do with what we are given.

Grief is a deep and powerful emotion caused by the loss of someone or something we held dear. Grief is part of loving and engaging with life. Loss is bound to come in this fallen world, and grief with it. Grief is not an emotion to be avoided, but one to acknowledge and walk through. (Got Questions Ministries: https://www.gotquestions.org/Bible-grief.html)

Stress generally refers to two things: the psychological perception of pressure, on the one hand, and the body's response to it, on the other, which involves multiple systems, from breakdown to muscles to memory.

A toxic relationship can drain the life right out of you. Some people have a long history of getting themselves into toxic relationships and staying far too long. What exactly is a toxic relationship? Here’s one explanation from the book Toxic People (1995) by Dr. Lillian Glass: “Any relationship between people who don’t support each other, where there’s conflict and one seek to undermine the other, where there’s competition, where there’s disrespect and a lack of cohesiveness.”

Have you ever jumped from relationship to relationship every few months, wondering why you can’t find the perfect partner? Or maybe you’ve been left wondering why the partners you choose are always emotionally unavailable. What if you knew that your relationship choices and the way you attach to others has been established since you were in the womb

If you live long enough, you’ll eventually have to deal with the death of a loved one.  Everything that lives eventually dies, but just because death is natural doesn’t make it any easier to navigate. Grief is a universal consequence of loss, but it is also a very individual experience. Since everyone is likely to face this type of loss more than once in a lifetime, it’s worth the effort to understand the grief process and how to navigate it.

When you've been hurt by someone, there is more to the pain than "just" the one event. Emotions are mixed emotions of what has happened in the past, your pain in the present, your fears of the future, and your interpretation of what the event means about you.