Grief isn’t just about loss, it’s about processing change, setbacks, and the unexpected turns in life. For different thinkers, the grieving process can look a little different, and that’s okay.
In this week’s Different Thinker Motivational Moment, I share why it’s important to grieve in a way that works for you, how being neurodiverse can impact emotions, and why healthy grieving helps you move forward and thrive.
If you’ve ever felt stuck in frustration or sadness over things not going as planned, this message is for you. Learn to grieve, heal, and embrace your unique journey.
Transcription:
Hey, this week’s Different Thinker Motivational Moment is about something that I find really common but doesn’t get talked about enough. That motivation is the fact that grieving might be a little bit different for a different thinker, and I just want to motivate you that that’s okay.
There might actually be a lot of things in your life that you need to grieve. By grieving, I mean get angry, get mad, cry, be sad—have all the emotions about the fact that something you were working on did not quite turn out the way you wanted it to, or possibly is not moving forward at all. That can be relationships, that can be people—obviously, when they pass—but grief actually plays out in many areas of our life.
In particular, I’ve noticed, read about, and learned that in the neurodiverse community, we can be more emotionally sensitive to a variety of things. What doesn’t get talked about is the fact that this sensitivity adds to our need to grieve a little bit more and to learn how to apply that in a lot of areas of our life.
So this is my Different Thinker Motivational Moment: learn how you need to grieve to move on, to heal, and to have a successful, thriving life—because that is what you deserve. That is the goal. It is not for you to be stuck in a mire of mucky thoughts about how things didn’t turn out the way you planned, or how you’re maybe not like other people in the way they think or do things. That wasn’t the strategy at all.
By the way, it is also not uncommon to grieve the fact that you don’t process everything the way other people do and that your path moving forward is not going to look like the paths of a lot of the people around you. That’s okay too.
So I highly recommend my Different Thinker Motivational Moment, which maybe doesn’t sound like a motivational moment—but it is. Because when you learn to grieve in a healthy way, I promise you, you actually get to move on and thrive a whole lot sooner.
I’m JoyGenea. Thanks for tuning in, and go out there and learn to grieve. It’s okay to cry—actually, it’s great to cry. Bye now.