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Grief Waves Log

Track waves so they stop feeling like ambushes

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Grief comes in waves — often triggered, sometimes not. Tracking the pattern makes the waves feel less like ambushes and more like weather you can prepare for.

Day
Trigger (if any)
Intensity 0–10
What helped
Patterns I'm noticing — times of day, days of week, sensory triggers

Ride, don't fight

Waves crest and pass. The instinct to shut the wave down usually extends it. Riding through — with breath, with a witness, with a soft body — is shorter than fighting.

References & further reading

Conceptual background and further reading, not validation of this handout. Named instruments and methods belong to their original authors; custom prompts and trackers are not validated versions of those instruments.

  • Worden, J. W. (2018). Grief Counseling and Grief Therapy (5th ed.). Springer Publishing Company.
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