Title: Your Health and Grief
Headings: Your Health and Grief
Your Health and Grief
How we Physically React to Stress
Taking Preventative Measures to Ward Off Health Concerns

Content: Another way to lessen the stress and probably the most helpful is to acknowledge and appropriately express the emotions that we feel during grief. These measures can considerably decrease the potential for illness to develop because it displaces and releases the tension brought on by the stress of grief. And certainly good nutrition exercise and proper rest are essential preventive measures. Another point to consider too is that the stress of grief is rarely the only stress we are experiencing at the time of a loved one’s death. Problems in our marriage or with our surviving loved ones are only two examples of the other stresses that may be added to the stress of grief. Put a number of stresses together and our bodies will surely suffer. We must be very aware that our loved one’s death and the resultant grief is a legitimate reason for physical illness. We must do whatever we can to lessen our susceptibility. Heading directly into our grief and allowing ourselves to face our painful emotions is the most helpful thing we can do. Talking about our child and the circumstances of the death crying when we need to and talking with someone who will listen non-judgmentally to our anger and guilt is the only way to successfully resolve our grief—and ultimately resolve the stress that is caused by the grief.