Mia argues much Western addiction, substance abuse, PTSD, depression, anxiety and even physical disease is unprocessed grief, because we say goodbye to things all the time without actually choosing those goodbyes.
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- Choose your goodbyes
Actively choose each goodbye ('this I'm choosing, and this too') instead of letting losses happen to you, so grief doesn't go unprocessed.
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We say goodbye to things all the time. Are we choosing that goodbye every time, or are we letting things happen to us? I'm choosing this, and this too I'm also choosing. I'm here and I'm choosing it.
- Control can be grief in disguise
Rigid structure, narrow-mindedness and a need to control everything can be a child's defense against grief that hasn't been dealt with internally.