Woman Shares The “Ball In The Box” Analogy Her Doctor Taught Her To Help Deal With Grief

By: Anuradha

Grief is something that we all encounter at some point in our life. We all have experienced that feeling and there is no doubt that we will experience the same in the future as well. however, the way that each of us cope up with it is different from each other. While some learn to be hard and tough with such feelings, there are some who give up everything and completely ruin their lives because of grief. However, here we have the story of a woman who dealt with grief wisely and she has shared her story on Twitter as it would be useful for others as well.

Lauren Herschel was deeply affected when her mom passed away. It was a big shock to her and she didn’t know how to survive the pain. Luckily, her doctor taught her an analogy which helped her lot to understand the nature of grief and how to deal with that. She says,

Image credits: LaurenHerschel

Image credits: LaurenHerschel

“I think we absolutely need to talk about grief and death more, it is normal, yet so many people feel like they can’t talk about it, or can only talk about it for a short-prescribed period right after someone passes. But grief is a longer journey than that.

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I do believe that it’s good to feel grief even years later. It does help you remember happy times and process how the loss has affected your life. I don’t think it’s something you can wish away at any point.”

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“I still refer to the analogy. The 23rd anniversary of my dad passing was Valentine’s Day – old feelings of grief do pop up for sure but now I have a way of making more sense of them, and I also know it’s more normal than I previously thought years ago.”

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When Lauren published this post, it was shared almost 5000 times as many people could relate this analogy to their own sorrows. She says, “The reaction to the tweets has been surprising. It kind of comes and goes in waves of people seeing it – which is great. I think it’s one of those things we find when we really need it.”