Healthy Holistics

06/03/2026

This act of slowing down to notice details provides a much-needed break for the amygdala, helping in dealing with grief. It's a powerful coping strategy that supports emotional health and promotes healing. 💛

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06/02/2026

Grief doesn’t just affect your emotions. It affects your brain, nervous system, focus, memory, and even your ability to feel present.

What’s fascinating is that something as simple as taking a photo can gently support the healing process.

Photography & journaling during grief can help:
• shift the brain out of emotional overwhelm and into observation
• increase mindfulness and present-moment awareness
• support meaning-making after loss
• calm the nervous system through intentional noticing
• create small moments of connection, reflection, and expression

Sometimes healing doesn’t begin with “moving on.”
Sometimes it begins by simply noticing what’s still here.

That’s one reason I created Healing Through the Lens: a 30-day grief healing journey using photography, journaling, reflection, and community support.

If you’ve been carrying grief quietly, this may be a gentle place to begin. 🤍
Explore this journey: https://store.healthyholistics.net/healing-through-the-lens

06/01/2026

Five years ago, this photograph was taken during our father-daughter dance at my wedding.

At the time, it was simply a beautiful moment.

Today, it means something different.

About two and a half years ago, my dad had a stroke. He can no longer walk and now lives in assisted living. He also has signs of dementia.

My father is still alive.

And yet, I find myself grieving.

Not only the losses that have already occurred, but the changes in our relationship and the future I once imagined.

When I look at this photograph now, I don't just see a wedding dance.

I see a moment I can never return to (although, I do believe in miracles).

I see love.

I see gratitude.

I see sadness.

I see memories.

And somehow, I also see healing.

This experience has taught me something important:
Grief isn't limited to the death of a loved one.

Sometimes we grieve changes in health, relationships, abilities, roles, or the future we expected.

I imagine many of you have a photograph that carries a story like this.

One that means something different today than it did when it was taken.

This is one of the reasons I created Healing Through the Lens, a gentle 30-day journey that combines photography, journaling, mindfulness, and community to help people process grief and reconnect with meaning, beauty, and hope.

If this resonates with you, I'd love to have you join us.

Enrollment closes June 18 at 11:30 PM MDT.

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💛 Laurie

05/25/2026

Anticipatory grief is real. Sometimes we begin grieving before a loss ever happens. 💙

If you're navigating grief and looking for gentle support, I created Healing Through the Lens, a 30-day journey using photography, journaling, reflection, and community to help you process emotions one day at a time. No fancy camera needed....just your cell phone.

📸 Link in bio

05/18/2026

Grief is the price you pay for love. 💔

Healing is hard (and you deserve real support). Get the Grief Relief Tool™ for just $17 — a very helpful resource to assist you in healing the hurt of grief with compassion (link in bio).

👉 https://store.healthyholistics.net/griefrelieftool

05/14/2026

Grief doesn’t just change who’s missing from your life....it can change who you feel like, too.

Sometimes the hardest part isn’t only losing the person…
it’s grieving the version of yourself that existed when they were here.

The routines.
The roles.
The future you imagined.
The sense of identity attached to that relationship.

This is why grief can feel so disorienting to the brain and nervous system. You’re not only processing loss. You’re also rebuilding meaning, safety, and identity in a world that no longer feels the same.

If you’re grieving right now, please know this:
You are not “falling apart.”
You are navigating a profound internal transition. 💛

And healing doesn’t mean forgetting them.
It means slowly learning how to carry both love and life forward at the same time.

If your grief has felt overwhelming lately, I also created gentle tools and resources linked here: 👉 https://store.healthyholistics.net/feelbetterfast

05/13/2026

This might explain why it hurts so badly.....grief changes the brain, with brain scans indicating that emotional pain from loss activates regions similar to those involved in physical pain. This is a reason why grief can feel like a literal hurt, not just an emotional experience.

The Grief Relief Tool™ is a simple, gentle, and effective self-help solution to assist in this emotional healing process. It is a mind-body self-help stress tool that is very effective at softening the symptoms of grief in just a few short minutes. 💔
👉 https://store.healthyholistics.net/griefrelieftool

05/13/2026

Your grief isn't a problem to fix. It's a process to honor. 🧠🤍

Grief isn't something you "get over." It's not a phase or a weakness or a sign that you're stuck.

It's actually one of the most profound things your brain will ever do....learning how to live in a completely altered reality.

Every wave of emotion, every sleepless night, every unexpected tear... that's not you falling apart. That's your neural pathways being remodeled. That's your brain doing some of the hardest, most courageous work of your life.

And here's the part that I think so many people need to hear:
You don't leave them behind. You learn to carry them forward.

If you've been hard on yourself for "not being over it yet," I hope this gives you permission to release that pressure. Your grief is not a malfunction. It's love, doing the only thing it knows how to do. 💛

Save this if you needed to hear it today....and if you're ready for support on your healing journey, my $17 Grief Relief Tool is linked in bio. 🔗

05/12/2026

Your body never forgot. Even if your mind tried to move on. 💔

Grief doesn't follow a timeline....and if you're still feeling the weight of a loss years later, there's nothing wrong with you. That heaviness in your chest, the 3AM wake-ups, the respiratory issues that seem to come out of nowhere... your body is still carrying what your emotions never fully released.

Because here's what most people don't realize: emotions are timeless and physiological. Something that happened 20 years ago can feel in your body like it happened yesterday. Unresolved grief doesn't just disappear — it lives in your tissues, your lungs, your heart.

And it doesn't have to be the loss of a person. It can be the loss of a relationship, a dream, a version of yourself.

You're not "too sensitive." You're not "stuck." Your body is simply holding what was never given space to heal. 🤍

Save this if it resonates....and if you're ready to start releasing what your body has been carrying, I created a $17 Grief Relief Tool to help you do exactly that.
👉 https://store.healthyholistics.net/griefrelieftool

Link also in bio. 🔗

02/12/2026