Running From Memories: At Two Years, it Causes Me More Stress to Avoid the Pain than Face it

Anniversaries bring big feelings and now,  two years since Sam's death, I have found myself falling back into old patterns of avoidance.   

This time, however, I am finding my stress and anxiety lie more in my avoidance tactics and how they are impacting my life than in facing and dealing with the same pain I have lived with for two years now.  

In this episode, I discuss two of my biggest negative coping mechanisms,  over-sleeping and constant podcasts listening, are impacting the quality my life, and why I am finding that looking directly at my grief is more healthy and at this point, and even easier, than avoiding it.