6 Mindful Strategies to Recover from the Shock of Loss

By Heather Stang, MA, C-IAYT

Posted: March 30, 2011

It is easy to become overwhelmed in the face of loss and world crisis, and yet we have this gift of mindfulness to keep us sane and even grow through it all. Your 6 points are spot on. We have to have support, we have to get to know ourselves better, and we have to envision (and eventually act) on the reconstructed life after loss.

I teach Yoga for Grief (which relates to point 6: Practice Mindfulness), and am posting 8 mindfulness based exercises for grief. I will read your book and will add it to my mindful grief resource list. Thank you for all you do! The world is better for it.

Jai, Heather Whittington, MA
http://www.mindfulgrief.com
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Heather Stang, M.A. is the author of Living with Grief and the guided journal, From Grief To Peace. She is the creator of the Mindfulness & Grief System that is featured in the Handbook of Grief Therapies (2023) and is the founder of Awaken, a mindfulness-based online grief support group. Heather also hosts the Mindfulness & Grief Podcast, and offers mindfulness-based grief support online through her organization, the Mindfulness & Grief Institute. She holds a Masters degree in Thanatology (Death, Dying, and Bereavement) from Hood College in Maryland, and is a certified Yoga Therapist. She currently lives in Falling Waters, WV.

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