Like weather, your emotions move through you like beautiful sunny days or destructive storms. It takes time to recover from a terrible storm and rebuild the very foundation of your existence.

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Well-intended friends and family often cause overwhelm or harm. It disrupts your natural recovery process when they impose ways to "cheer you up" or share relatable experiences that you can't begin to respond to because you can barley wrap your mind around your own. 

 

When you experience grief, loss or death, your nervous system is enduring the destruction of familiar pathways that once offered security and contentment. This is why you feel devastated, unable to find your footing and disorientated in life.

Space to restore your nervous system is required