{"id":14728,"date":"2019-06-18T19:41:08","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T19:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/?p=14728"},"modified":"2023-04-25T23:10:31","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T23:10:31","slug":"when-we-experience-grief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/home\/grief-loss\/when-we-experience-grief\/","title":{"rendered":"When We Experience Grief"},"content":{"rendered":"
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All Grief Is Experienced at 100%<\/span><\/h2>\n

Remembering that grief is the normal and natural response to a loss of any kind and that no two people experience loss the same way – All grief is experienced at 100%.\u00a0 <\/span>This doesn\u2019t mean that all grief is experienced at the same level of emotional intensity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We experience 100% of the grief as shaped by the quality<\/i> of the relationship we have to the loss. \u00a0Grief is unique to each of us.\u00a0<\/span>For example, two siblings can have very different relationships with a parent who has died.\u00a0 <\/span>These differences make our grief experience unique. For this reason, it is unhelpful to compare your grief to that of another, even when speaking about the same loss. In this light, we can be free to feel what we feel without having to compare it to others or be critical of our honest experience.<\/span><\/p>\n

Practically, when someone meaningful to us dies, it means that the intensity of grief we feel will be influenced by the following four qualities of relationship:<\/span><\/p>\n