Your favorite quotes

[Bobby1]

Re: Your favorite quotes

@FreshBakedPi

I think, from a psychological standpoint, feelings shouldn’t be avoided. They should be felt and dealt with. And if we are perpetually chasing happiness in a desperate attempt to avoid the more negative feelings in life then we become emotionally stunted individuals. Again, your example of your children uses the phrase “overly grieve”… problematic because *your *gauge will be different than everyone elses. The important thing here is that they allow the grief to take place in the first place. Attempting to avoid it and “think only happy memories” will prolong it… avoidance doesn’t work when it comes to emotions. And yes of course we can completely agree to disagree here :k:.

A TED Talk you might like: CLICK

Thank you, I will for sure watch Ted talk, I deal with a lot of people and people get very intimate with me as building a home is a monumental occasion and I have been involved in senior housing, aging in place housing, dying spouses, widows, widowers etc and I was very careful in choosing my life philosophies. My ex was a palliative nurse also so she dealt with death also. I have seen people who could not recover from the death of a parent and spouse and I have seen people who bounce right back. Over grief in my opinion is when you are not able to function properly and are unable to enjoy life anymore for a prolonged period of life. I have also seen people totally shattered after death of a pet. Here is a Ted talk which I wanted to post on my thread about what you say is what you create. I also feel that as a parent I need to create healthy emotional attachment with my kids so they are not debilitated after I move on.