Fran Solomon: The difference between grief and depression and how to actively move forward when in the trenches of grief.

Fran is a certified grief recovery specialist and founder and president of healgrief.org.  

In today’s episode we discuss: 

• The difference between men and women and the way they grieve.
• 1st step to dealing with grief is acceptance and the steps to getting there.
• 5 stages of grief 
• # 1 Taboo around grief
• How to support someone you know who is grieving.
• How unresolved grief will rear its head- Jade Recovery institute has found in research that addiction stems from trauma and if you dig deeper it is shown to stem from unresolved grief of a death.
• Pet loss can be as deep as human loss and how most children's first loss is a pet.  If you can teach children at a young age how to cope then you are setting the child up for how to cope, the rest of their lives.

Connect with Ashley Rivard:
Instagram: @someday_ill_get_there
Website: www.ashleyrivard.com 

Connect with Fran:
www.healgrief.org