Title: That Discomfort You’re Feeling Is Grief
Headings: That Discomfort You’re Feeling Is Grief
Emotional intelligence
That Discomfort You’re Feeling Is Grief
HBR: People are feeling any number of things right now. Is it right to call some of what they’re feeling grief?
You said we’re feeling more than one kind of grief?
What can individuals do to manage all this grief?
When we’re feeling grief there’s that physical pain. And the racing mind. Are there techniques to deal with that to make it less intense?
One particularly troubling aspect of this pandemic is the open-endedness of it.
What do you say to someone who’s read all this and is still feeling overwhelmed with grief?
In an orderly way?

Content: Fighting it doesn’t help because your body is producing the feeling. If we allow the feelings to happen, they’ll happen in an orderly way, and it empowers us. Then we’re not victims. In an orderly way? Yes. Sometimes we try not to feel what we’re feeling because we have this image of a “gang of feelings.” If I feel sad and let that in, it’ll never go away. The gang of bad feelings will overrun me. The truth is a feeling that moves through us. We feel it and it goes and then we go to the next feeling.