{"id":238,"date":"2026-06-01T00:00:46","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T07:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsasnet.org\/new\/?p=238"},"modified":"2025-11-17T08:57:40","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T16:57:40","slug":"august-is-grief-awareness-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsasnet.org\/new\/2026\/06\/01\/august-is-grief-awareness-month\/","title":{"rendered":"August is Grief Awareness Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/healgrief.org\/august-30th-national-grief-awareness-day\/\"><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">What is grief awareness?<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/h3>\n<h4><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Likely you\u2019ve heard of the concept of \u201cacceptance\u201d of a problem that comes before solving it. This concept can also be applied to grief \u2013 even though grief isn\u2019t a problem, and it doesn\u2019t get solved.\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">For those of us experiencing grief, if we accept that it is a part of our current life experience, we can progress to permitting ourselves to grieve.\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Permission to grieve does so much to lighten the load and allow us to flow into a new reality where grief changes our lives profoundly.<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">If someone you love is experiencing grief, you must accept that grief exists and that it\u2019s a personal journey for the person experiencing it \u2013 and not something that requires judgment or any action to \u201cfix\u201d it.<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Why does grief awareness matter?<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">All too often, those experiencing grief often feel that they aren\u2019t allowed to grieve and are judged when doing so.<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">There is no expiration date on grief, and after a set amount of time, those of us grieving a death loss won\u2019t merely \u201cget over it.\u201d Grief is a highly personal journey that each person is on for the rest of their life. Sometimes the feelings and memories come back in waves, but there is undoubtedly no expiration date. The memories and emotions can come rushing back at any moment throughout life.\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n<h4><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The bottom line is \u2013 it\u2019s completely okay not to be okay. And it\u2019s critical that we, as a society, don\u2019t put added pressure on those who are grieving.<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is grief awareness? Likely you\u2019ve heard of the concept of \u201cacceptance\u201d of a problem that comes before solving it. This concept can also be applied to grief \u2013 even though grief isn\u2019t a problem, and it doesn\u2019t get solved.\u00a0 For those of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":239,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsasnet.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsasnet.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsasnet.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsasnet.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsasnet.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rsasnet.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240,"href":"https:\/\/rsasnet.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions\/240"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsasnet.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsasnet.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsasnet.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsasnet.org\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}