Losing someone you love can be extremely challenging. However, honoring them can help you heal and is also a great way to show your respect to them.
If you’ve lost someone you loved whether it may be a parent, sibling, child, friend, pet, or even something meaningful in your life. You don’t have to let those feelings and emotions define you or your perspective of life.
Grief is far from comfortable and my biggest lesson learned from dealing with loses this year has been choosing to heal gracefully.
This doesn’t mean it will take all the pain and negative emotions away, but does eventually become more manageable over time. I also realized that how you choose to grieve can make either a positive or negative impact on your life. And for me, there’s no way I could’ve moved forward and focus on the life I’m blessed to live without my faith in God.
While grieving you may be dealing with many emotions, feelings, fears, or even physical symptoms. It may seem impossible to see the light while you’re in the thick of if.
But as for someone who felt lost, afraid, fearful, anxious, angry, confused, sad, and other difficult emotions. It is through faith that I’ve learned how to honor lost loved ones and allowing God to heal the brokenness in my heart. Keeping the faith has help me build the courage to live well and be present.
How To Honor A Loved One That Has Passed Away?
Cherishing someone you’ve lost can help you enjoy life while you’re grieving. It won’t be a perfect journey but you’ll be truly proud of the person you’ve bloomed into, your resilience, and hopefully began to enjoy the life you live again. This is also a great way to process and reflect on how you’re feeling.
In today’s post, I’ll be sharing the seven ways I’m honoring lost loved ones. Here are 7 Unique Ways To Honor Someone You’ve Lost.💜🌻🪽 🙇♀️😇
7 Unique Ways To Honor Someone You’ve Lost
How To Cherish A Loved One That Has Passed
1. Reflect On The Positive Impact They’ve Made On Your Life
One great way to honor someone you’ve lost is reflecting on the positive impact they’ve made in your life.
Although this doesn’t replace their physical presence or change the past, it can give you a more positive outlook on who they were and what they meant to you.
Losing someone often come with heavy and difficult emotions, thoughts, and feelings. It can take days, weeks, months, years, or even a lifetime to truly accept, process loss. This journey may also take some adjusting in order to learn how to live and enjoy life after losing someone.
If you’re having a difficult time after losing someone in your life, remembering any compliments they’ve given you, wisdom learned , moments shared, photos taken, or reflecting on how they made your life better. This can be a helpful and therapeutic way to honor someone you’ve lost.
2. Have Their Favorite Meal Or Dessert
A fun way to honor and show respect to someone you’ve lost is to have their favorite meal, dessert, or beverage.
Perhaps on the anniversary of their passing you can look for fun ways to celebrate them. Not only is this a fun and creative way to honor someone you’ve lost, but it’s an awesome way to cherish them and the life you were blessed to share with them.
3. Prayer
Prayer is such a powerful way to honor someone you’ve lost while receiving the healing and comfort you need. Whether you want to express gratitude, work through challenges, or just need someone to talk to.
One of the most important things to remember after losing a loved one is that you are never alone. You may feel alone, afraid, fearful, hopeless, sad, empty, or other feelings that come with grief. But, you don’t have to grieve alone.
At any moment of any day start a conversation with God and invite Him into your life and allow Him to heal, guide, and restore your heart.💟
4. Live Each Day To The Fullest
Another way to honor someone you’ve lost is by living your life to the fullest.
Losing loved ones has taught me to never take any day for granted. Doing something they enjoyed, taking care of your health, surrounding yourself with genuine people, working towards your passions, healing, increasing your faith, being present, rediscovering yourself, embracing a life of peace and joy, and making time for fun.
All of which are ways you can start living life to the fullest. Each day you have the opportunity to experience life and make every day count . Staying rooted in faith and reminding yourself of your core values are all ways to keep in mind what matters most to you.
5. Start A Grief Journal
If you’re having a hard time with losing a loved one, starting a grief journal may be helpful. Whether you want to reflect, process your feelings and emotions, or want a safe place to express your feelings about the loss.
Journaling can help calm your heart, mind, and inspire peace within your heart. Journaling is a great way to release negative emotions in a healthy and positive way.
Since grief comes with lots of emotions, it’s crucial to find healthy ways to cope with loss. Being that, we don’t want to allow those feelings to negatively impact the people and world around us.
Grief journaling is a wonderful way to see how far you’ve come after going through something as challenging as loss. A grief journal can be whatever you want it to be. A few ways I use a grief journal for healing are:
- Journaling prompts specifically for grief.
- Memory keeping pages of the moments shared with your lost ones(s).
- Simply writing/praying for whatever is on my heart.
- Photos that bring joy to my heart.
- Scriptures for comfort and peace.
- Letter to lost loved one(s).
6. Create An Uplifting Music Playlist
It can be difficult to get out of your own head after losing a loved one. And it can also feel nearly impossible to not be fearful, worried, or even feel stuck in those feelings and emotions. However, curating an uplifting playlist or adding a few of your lost loved one(s) favorite songs is a great way to honor them.
This can inspire you to be fully present and in the moment. Take a walk in nature and play a few uplifting songs that speaks to your heart help you feel connected with them through music. Music can remind you of them, shared memories, and can also encourage you to live a more intentional life.
7. Keep Sentimental Things Close
What better way to honor a lost loved one than to keep something sentimental close?💝
Whether it’s a gift they’ve given you, something they made specifically for you, a voice note, positive messages they’ve sent you, a birthday/holiday cards, or something that holds an emotional value to you.
Having something that reminds you of them or that helps you feel connected to them can help you cherish and honor them.
Final Thoughts On Honoring A Lost Loved One
No matter the loss, losing someone comes with its challenges. However, it’s important to take each day one step at a time.
Have faith, heal gracefully, and shift your focus to something that brings you joy and that makes you a better person.
It’s not going to be easy or perfect, but it will encourage you to start living and enjoying life after loss.
This post was inspired by my grief journey and in honor of my lost loved ones whom I’ve lost earlier this year. While it has taken time, effort, continuous growth, unwavering faith and prayer.
I am finally at a place where I can live with ease and honor them with joy. I hope this post encourages you and reassures you that life can absolutely get better after loss and so can you!🌸
These Are Unique Ways To Honor Someone That Has Passed Away
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