7 Ways to Release Grief from Your Body
Estimated reading time: 7 minutes
After a traumatic loss, a grief expert discovers 7 techniques for setting grief free from the body and moving toward comfort
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After a sudden and traumatic loss a few years ago, my grief and shock first expressed themselves through my body: I couldn’t stop shuddering. This shaking was so bad that even once I could sleep again, it woke me at night. So I didn’t need bestselling books like Dr. Bessel Van Der Kolk’s renowned The Body Keeps Score to know that both trauma and grief invade the body and can be rather stubborn about leaving.
Like Van Der Kolk, most counselors agree that grief needs expression. That’s true even for grief caused by losses that others might not recognize or the less-easily categorized hits of the COVID-19 pandemic.
