Grief and loss are fundamental parts of life and may cause extreme sadness or anger. Everyone grieves differently, and making space for your natural expertise is essential–letting the body do what it naturally wants to do with the pain without getting in the way. The problem is that most of us do try to block our sadness or distract from the feeling of loss, whether it is an acute loss of a loved one through death or illness or the losses we accumulate throughout life but sometimes never seem to get over–such an not having had parents who could care for us well.
One crucial aspect of loss is that one loss triggers them all. It is as though the loss is all stored in one psychological bucket, so if you tap into that place, you are grieving every loss that has happened to you and still needs to be processed. The advantage of this is that you have an opportunity to more deeply heal things you had partially moved past but are still underlying.