Can meditation help me deal with grief?

When you're navigating grief it can be particularly helpful to practice loving-kindness for yourself and your loved ones. Sharon Salzberg teaches this in her course 10% Nicer and these meditations in the app might be help you work with your grief and sense of loss:

• Working with Grief | Sebene Selassie
• Feeling Grief | Sharon Salzberg
• Losing Someone You Love | Alexis Santos
• When Grief Arrives | Oren Jay Sofer

Self-compassion work might also be helpful. Self-compassion work can help with the difficult feelings and pain of reconciling the loss you're going through. We have some self-compassion lessons from Joseph Goldstein in the Ten Percent Happier course, Compassion. You might also try:

• Three Steps Toward Self-Compassion | Alexis Santos
• Self-Compassion | Sharon Salzberg
• See Yourself Compassionately | Jess Morey
• Self-Compassion | Joseph Goldstein

You'll find more resources in our Help Center article Mindfulness for Grief.

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