With the Harvard Business Review, author David Kessler shared his thoughts on why it’s important to acknowledge the grief you may be feeling, how to manage it, and how he believes we will find meaning in it.

Perhaps you haven’t named what you’re feeling as grief, and more than one kind of grief, but give this a read and see what you think.

The loss of normalcy; the fear of economic toll; the loss of connection. This is hitting us and we’re grieving. Collectively.

We’re also feeling anticipatory grief. Anticipatory grief is that feeling we get about what the future holds when we’re uncertain. There is a storm coming. There’s something bad out there. With a virus, this kind of grief is so confusing for people. Our primitive mind knows something bad is happening, but you can’t see it. This breaks our sense of safety. I don’t think we’ve collectively lost our sense of general safety like this. Individually or as smaller groups, people have felt this. We are grieving on a micro and a macro level.

Read the full post HERE