A Plumber's Guide to Grief

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The Grief Pressure Cooker

The Grief Pressure Cooker

The anguish that grief survivors carry in their minds and bodies can be compared to a pressure-cooker that can't be turned off. The flame and subsequent steam are always there, building pressure every day. An internal pressure-cooker of sorts, which builds more steam on bad days than good days. Moreover, steam pressure builds over time. In this Plumber’s Guide to Grief series, we explore ways to maintain our internal pressure cookers, giving relief and healing to our mind and body.

Pressure Cooker Control Valve 2: Write Until the Ink Runs Out

Pressure Cooker Control Valve 2: Write Until the Ink Runs Out

Bloom's Taxonomy is the gold standard for development of educational curriculum. Bloom's prescribes six levels of learning with creation being the highest level, and remembering being the lowest level. When we write about anything that might be on our mind, we are..

Pressure Cooker Control Valve 1: Prayer

Pressure Cooker Control Valve 1: Prayer

Prayer has been key to my grief recovery. If you are mad at God right now, you don't know Him, or don't want to know Him. Do me this favor, pray anyway. Just once. Go ahead, try it. It can't hurt any worse than you are hurting now, can it? First, there is a reason that bad things...

Pressure Cooker Strategy

Pressure Cooker Strategy

For me, grief is akin to a pressure cooker on a hot stove, except pressure cookers have a safety relief valve that relieves excess steam pressure when over a hot flame. You and I are not equipped with a safety relief valve. We must maintain the pressure that grief brings to our lives...