

Healing Grief in the Body
Losing my son Dylan changed the way I understood grief. Before losing him, I thought grief lived mostly in the heart and mind. Sadness. Missing someone. Memories. Tears. But after he died, I realized grief lives in the body too. It lived in the tightness in my chest that never fully left. In the exhaustion that sleep could not fix. In the heaviness in my arms. In the constant feeling that my nervous system no longer knew how to rest. There were days I could not explain what w


How to Nourish Your Body Through Grief — A Gentle Guide
Grief and food have a complicated relationship. Some of us lose our appetites entirely — going days without a real meal, surviving on tea and crackers and the occasional piece of toast. Others find themselves eating compulsively, reaching for comfort in the only place that feels accessible. Most of us move between the two without understanding why our relationship with nourishment has changed so completely. After I lost my son Dylan, I spent weeks barely eating. I am a Regist


What Grief Does to Your Body — A Holistic Nutritionist Explains
What Grief Does to Your Body — A Holistic Nutritionist Explains There is a particular kind of exhaustion that comes with grief that no amount of sleep seems to touch. A heaviness in the limbs that makes ordinary tasks feel monumental. A stomach that refuses to cooperate. A mind that goes blank in the middle of sentences. For a long time, I thought this was just what grief looked like. After I lost my son Dylan, I moved through my days feeling like I was wading through water.


