The POWER of taking the TIME to GRIEVE | Jayson Lowe

When you lose a loved one and you're not taking the time to really process that grief or to talk to somebody to help you process it, it's really detrimental. It's detrimental to your mental well being, it's detrimental to your physical well being and it manifests itself in a number of ways. But when I finally attended grief counseling, one of the things that the grief counselor invited me to do was to write a letter to my parents and express to them if I had known that that was the last time I'd be communicating with them, to really truly express everything that I would say. And so I went through that exercise, contacted my grief counselor, said, hey, I'm all done. I've got it done. He said, well, you're not done yet. You need to invite your family to attend your next grief counseling session and you're going to read these letters out loud to with your family present. And that created this waterfall of emotion that had been bottled up.