What needs to find expression with your grief this Halloween?
The past often lives on in the present, and grief is a natural response to loss.Fall is a time of change in the northern hemisphere; leaves fall, the air gets colder, the days become shorter, summer ends, and the harvest begins. Symbolically, autumn is also associated with a time of endings, transitions, and decay. This is evocatively captured by Halloween, which is associated with so many symbols of dying, death, change, and transformation.
We may also literally see ghosts knocking at our doors this time of year .While grief is often crushing and heartbreaking, it is also the way in which we integrate significant loss into our lives. Grief is a normative response to loss, and grief invites us to honor the role of suffering within our lives. It is through grief that people learn how to make sense of incomprehensible events, and grief is fundamentally a process of adjustment.
Halloween presents us with an opportunity to decide how we would like to engage with our grief. While we can’t control death and certainly cannot think our way out of grief, we can instead learn how to honor our losses, which may haunt us every day. Triggers present opportunities for connecting to ourselves more deeply.It’s reasonable for some people who are grieving to entirely opt out of Halloween.
For others, the holiday may welcome an opportunity to reconnect with their community, or it may present a needed chance to distract oneself from significant loss and simply go out and have some fun . Costumes can also present us with intentional opportunities to allow something deeper to find expression. We may wish to connect to an inner superhero so that we may embody heroic traits during a time of uncertainty.
This Halloween might be a time of simply trying to survive intrusive and overwhelming grief, or it may be time to develop an entirely new ritual for the spooky holiday season. Regardless of the way we decide to grapple with our grief this Halloween, the most important thing is that we collectively realize that grief is a deeply personal matter, and there is no one-size-fits-all approach.
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