Title: Delayed Grief - The Grief Recovery Method
Headings: A Grief Support Blog
A Grief Support Blog
Delayed Grief

Content: It can inadvertently impact other relationships and can keep us from fully enjoying them. These suppressed feelings can also negatively impact a person’s health, resulting in headaches, ulcers and other issues. This is exactly what we have been saying at The Grief Recovery Institute for nearly 40 years. Unfortunately, this is something that many of us do on a regular basis. In past articles we have talked about Disenfranchised Grief and Masked Grief in reference to suppressed grieving experiences. Our socialization process has ingrained in it the idea that we should ignore or hide our emotional feelings of pain and “put on a happy face.” We tend to discount our children’s seemingly unimportant grief issues and establish a pattern in them of suppressing feelings related to emotional loss. This sets in place a pattern that is similar to failing to pay income tax, without advantage of programs designed to forgive some of that burden. In this case, delaying our action in dealing with grief means that it waits for a moment to surface. I am sure that many of you have had situations where something you see or hear triggers a memory from the past.