Working With Emotions

Can meditation help me deal with grief and loss?

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 meditations for grief and loss in the app might be help you work through it:

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 meditation teacher Joseph Goldstein in the Happier course, Compassion. You might also try:

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

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