Grief is the internal response to loss. Grief refers to experiencing psychological, behavioral, social, and physical reactions. Grief is the beginning of our journey after we experience a loss. Grief can include sorrow, depression, guilt, anger, and phsyical symptoms like lack of sleep, lack of appetite, headaches, etc.
Mourning is the external response. Mourning helps us adapt to the loss. It is the way we choose to show our grief. It includes the way we choose to remember our babies; celebrating birthdays, displaying pictures, releasing balloons, scrap booking, etc.
The grief we feel, and especially the acute grief we feel when we first have a loss is temporary. That overwhelming, hide-in-a-hole, intense grief does fade. Mourning can go on forever!
It's important to understand the difference. Grief will not consume your life forever, but you will always remember and mourn your baby that left too soon.
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