Healing Through Words: How Writing Can Help You Process Grief

Writing can help you process grief

It’s not easy dealing with the loss of a loved one. Though my knowing is that our loved ones aren’t lost, nothing truly is, they have been transformed into a different form. They have been immersed in the great eternal.

This is how I am choosing to deal with my grief and the transformation into the spiritual realm of my mother, Shirley. She left her physical body in 2022. But I have not stopped feeling her. I feel her more.

To know a little about me is to know that I have no problem talking about the spiritual world. Which everything is part of. But there are various levels of it. The seen and unseen.

Sometimes, to deal with the unseen, we must do what is necessary in the seen (physical world.) That includes many options. One is writing.

Whether it be journaling or creating fictional stories, writing can be therapeutic. It has always given me comfort. Releasing thoughts (the unseen) to the seen (physical) to take out lower emotions to bring in or make space for higher emotions.

It can help grant clarity of mind due to lowering stress. Because it does no justice to the body when pressure is held. It is the monkey wrench into the entire system.

Let go of it all on paper or a computer to enhance your well-being. Even if it is to talk about how you feel about your loved one. I encourage you to do it for the other situations you may be experiencing.

I want you to be well. I believe your loved ones desire the same for you. Allow yourself to heal.

Peace and blessings,

Nikei S Salas