Is Grief Worse Than Stress?

(Newswire.net — March 29, 2016) South Pasadena, CA — Since the beginning of 2016, the world has seen the deaths of music and film icons David Bowie, Alan Rickman, and Glenn Frey. These deaths have struck quite a nerve with many people who have grown up hearing the music of Bowie or his films (such as Labyrinth), watched as Alan Rickman transformed the character of Severus Snape before their eyes from villain to hero over a decade, and heard the rock songs of Glenn Frey with his band the Eagles.

According to The Tampa Bay Times, the fans of these giants of the entertainment world still feel a connection to them and have begun to express their grief through social media memorials. These include #RIP hashtags, shared tributes from other celebrities and viral memorials. People around the world will listen to Ziggy Stardust and Hotel California on repeat, all while rewatching the Harry Potter series, Love Actually, and Die Hard. Before too long, the pain of their deaths will ebb, and the fans will move on. It’s all a part of the process of grief.

Just like with the death of a celebrity, the death of a loved one can be too much to handle.

“Losses and life transitions create change and with change always comes with discomfort. Sometimes its small discomfort, kind of like little waves playing around your knee, but sometimes it’s like a damn tsunami crashing down on you and tearing your world apart,” explains Paula Shaw, the author of Grief… When Will This Pain Ever End?: A Guide to Finding Your Way Out of the Depths of Despair After Suffering Profound Loss, a book dedicated to providing you with the tools and processes to helping you through your journey through grief and loss. “That’s how it was for me the summer that I lost my former husband and my dog of fourteen years within a month of each other. It was a really difficult, devastating time for me and my two children. But because I had children and clients who were depending on me, I had to heal and try to get my life back together as quickly as possible. So I started doing a lot of research and I started thinking about the tools I used over the years that’d been really effective with my clients. So, every single day I did something— I used some tool or I did some process to try to help myself feel and it worked.”

“Measurable change quickly occurs and concrete results manifest in far less time than with traditional therapies which only focus on the conscious mind. Working with a wide variety of healing modalities, I provide my clients with the most effective processes for their specific needs. Because every person has unique challenges, this customized approach is critical to their success,” Shaw says.

Grief is unimaginable and unavoidable in the journey of life. The fans of Rickman, Bowie, and Frey were overcome with unimaginable emotion upon their deaths. Because of how close these fans feel to these celebrities, this is the same type of pain that is felt when a loved one dies. When it happens, we often do not know what to do with it, often shutting down in the face of pain and loss. Shaw’s book, http://www.amazon.com/dp/0996317414/ will give you the tools to not only face the pain of loss, but deal with the grief one step at a time, one day at a time. “I decided I wanted to compile a truly helpful arsenal of tools to help others work through their grief journeys. In this book I’ve done just that giving you tools and processes and information to help you on your healing journey to move through your pain but at your own pace because no two people will go through this healing journey in exactly the same way or the same amount of time. But you’re not going to have to do it alone. I’m going to be with you every step of the way,” states Shaw.

The time that has passed after the deaths of Rickman, Bowie, and Frey have helped mourn their loss and deal with their grief in their own way. Slowly but surely, the pain from this experience begins to ebb away, and they will begin to resume normal life once again. Shaw’s method of facing grief a day at a time will help you connect with your loss, but also be present for the loved ones that are still here. Shaw imparts wisdom that will help you move on from any loss, be it a life transition, a loved one, or a celebrity.

 

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