By Zuko Komisa
It can be tough to get used to the idea that we won’t ever get to spend time with our loved ones again.
It requires patience and involves brain changes.
Grief is that overwhelming emotional condition that sweeps over you like a wave and knocks you off your feet.
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Point of View with Phemelo Motene spoke to Nomfundo Mogapi, who is a clinical psychologist & founder at the Centre for Mental Wellness and Leadership (CMWL) about how our brain copes with grief, and why it takes time to heal.
LISTEN TO THE FULL CONVERSATION HERE:
Grieving inevitably involves passing time.
Grieving is the process through which we come to terms with the loss of a loved one and learn to live with their absence.
When someone is mourning, they can feel a wide variety of emotions, just like we can feel a wide variety of emotions in any relationship.
Mogapi many of us are going through grief and we need to listen to our bodies and learn how to grieve.
“Sometimes we don’t show that grief, and at times that’s how we deal with it, we sometimes fool ourselves into thinking we are okay. We have people that just fall on the ground because they haven’t learned to grieve, they don’t even listen to their bodies when they bodies say,we are in pain, we need to take some time to heal.” says Mogapi
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