Grief can have a significant and measurable impact on the wellness of your mental body or experience. The grief process can manifest in you with some of the following experiences:

• Sense your loved one's presence

• Talking to your deceased loved one

• Experiencing an intense preoccupation with the life of your deceased loved one

• Dreaming of your loved one frequently or wanting to dream of them

• Playing and replaying the memories of the last days / weeks / hours

• Losing all memory of the first days / weeks / hours after learning of the death

• Losing a sense of time. Moving through the world feeling removed from the experience of time or like you are suspended in a bubble.

• Feeling as though you need to take care of other people who seem uncomfortable around you by politely not talking about your loss

• Needing to tell and retell stories of your relationship and your loss

• Wandering aimlessly, forgetting things often

• Not finishing the things you’ve started

• Feeling restless and looking for activity but find it difficult to concentrate

These are all natural and normal grief responses.