Tag: wellness

Overall wellness including physical health, mental health, emotional wellbeing, spiritual connection, and social relationships becomes critically important yet extremely difficult to maintain for suicide loss survivors whose grief affects every aspect of functioning and whose self-care often feels impossible, selfish, or even wrong when loved ones are dead. Wellness after suicide loss requires addressing the physical toll of grief including sleep disruption, appetite changes, exhaustion, weakened immune system, and other somatic symptoms through gentle movement, adequate nutrition when possible, medical care, and rest. Mental and emotional wellness involves therapy, medication when appropriate, support groups, coping strategies for managing overwhelming feelings, and allowing yourself the full range of emotions without judgment. Social wellness means maintaining connections even when isolation feels easier, accepting help when offered, and finding community with others who understand. Spiritual wellness might involve exploring questions of faith, meaning, and purpose that loss raises. Understanding that maintaining wellness serves rather than betrays your loved one, that you cannot effectively grieve while neglecting fundamental needs, and that wellness and grief coexist rather than compete helps survivors gradually prioritize their health through this devastating journey.