Alan Wolfelt, in Understanding Your Grief, and staff of The Grief Center provide the following components of health grieving.
- Accept the reality of the death.
- Let yourself feel the pain of the loss. This involves experiencing and expressing the emotions related to the loss.
- Remember the person who died.
- Develop a new self-identity.
- Search for meaning.
- Let others help you, now and always.
- Practice good self-care during the process.
- Reinvest in life. This involves making a commitment to go on living and loving after the person has died.
- To explore, these and other needs around mourning, contact The Grief Center of The Denver Hospice.