A short conversational excerpt featuring grief expert David Kessler responding to the question “How do I move past my grief in a healthy way?” Kessler advises that the healthy way is to feel and allow grief—passing through the pain rather than avoiding or rushing it—and to use grief as a natural tool for working through loss.
How do I move past my grief in a healthy way?
The way to move past your grief in a healthy way is to feel your grief. Sometimes the only way out of the pain is through the pain. And so we think of grief as something we need to get past, but we forget sometimes that it's the pain of the loss we're trying to escape from. And grief is a wonderful tool that's been given to us to help us work through that pain. So as you feel those feelings in time, that's how you will work through your grief in a healthy way. Not trying to make it quicker or slow the process down, but just allowing the process to happen.
