Everyone Is a Griever

Everyone Is a Griever

Grief isn’t just about death.

When most people hear the word grief, they think of funerals and final goodbyes. And yes, the death of a loved one is one of the most painful losses we can face.

But grief shows up in so many other places, quietly, subtly, often without a name.

Grief is the normal and natural emotional response to loss.

It’s what happens when your relationship to a person, place, pet, role, dream, or belief changes or ends and you're left with conflicting emotions about that change. That’s grief.

That includes:

  • The end of a relationship

  • A health diagnosis that changes everything

  • Career detours, dreams deferred, or opportunities missed

  • Losing a sense of safety, stability, or trust

  • Watching a future you once pictured slip away

Grief doesn’t always look like tears.
Sometimes it looks like exhaustion, burnout, resentment, numbness, or feeling stuck.

And because everyone experiences loss, that means:
Everyone is a griever.

The Grief I Didn’t Know I Had

For years, I didn’t recognize that what I was carrying was grief.
I told myself things like:
“I’m just overwhelmed.”
“I’m exhausted.”
“I need to push through.”

But by the time I was 28, I was buried under a lifetime of unresolved loss. I had survived traumas like:

  • The loss of safety and trust

  • Physical and emotional abuse

  • Being held hostage

  • Witnessing a public suicide

  • A health crisis that nearly stole my vision

And still, I believed my pain “wasn’t that bad” because someone else “had it worse.”
So I stayed silent. I pushed it down. I smiled on the outside.
And it nearly broke me.

What Changed Everything

In 2014, someone introduced me to the Grief Recovery Method®.
I was skeptical. I’d been diagnosed with complex PTSD. I had tried so many things that didn’t help.

But my Grief Recovery Specialist looked me in the eye and gently asked,
“Would you be willing to trust the process, just a little?”

That small yes changed everything.

Three days after completing the work, I woke up feeling light. Not fixed, not perfect but no longer buried. I had finally given voice to the grief I’d been carrying for years. And that single choice to name my grief and walk through it became the foundation of my healing.

Why This Matters for You

Since then, I’ve worked through 50+ unique loss events and relationships and counting.
I became an Advanced Certified Grief Recovery Specialist not because I mastered grief, but because I believe in sharing what actually works. Because it continues to work in my life each time I apply it.

If you’ve ever wondered:

  • “Why can’t I just get over it?”

  • “Is this even grief if no one died?”

  • “Am I the only one who feels this heavy all the time?”

Let me be clear:

  • Your grief is valid.
  • Your story matters.
  • You’re not too far gone.
  • You don’t have to carry it alone.

What You Can Do Next

If you’re carrying unresolved grief from a relationship, a trauma, a diagnosis, a detour in life, or anything that felt like loss you don’t have to keep pushing it down.

Healing is possible.
And I’d be honored to walk with you through it.

Start your Grief Recovery Journey. Join my 6-week 1:1 Grief Recovery Method® program and begin finding real, lasting relief.

You don’t have to tough it out.
You don’t have to carry it alone.
You don’t even have to believe it will work yet just be willing to begin.

Everyone is a griever.
But not everyone has to stay stuck in grief.

❤️ Danielle