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Working through your grief can be a painful process, but it is necessary to ensure your future emotional and physical well-being. Experts believe that if you don ’t mourn when your loss is fresh, the grief may stay bottled up inside you and cause emotional problems or physical illness later on....more>>

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Blessed are those who mourn: they shall be comforted (Mt 5:4)
The definition of grief includes the emotions and sensations accompanying the loss of someone or something dear to you. The English word comes from the Old French grève, meaning a heavy burden, which makes sense, given that grief can weigh you down with sorrow and other emotions, with both psychological and physical consequences.
When someone close to you dies, you don’t just lose that person on the physical level. You also face the loss of what might have been. So your pain can involve missing that person’s presence: sleeping in a bed that’s half empty, craving a scent or an embrace. But the consciousness of all the milestones in life the loved one will miss lasts longer than the pain of the physical absence. The children not born, the trips not taken, the colleges not attended, the weddings not danced at — every life marker is a reminder and can be an occasion for renewed grief.

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