{"id":499,"date":"2014-02-07T21:26:46","date_gmt":"2014-02-07T21:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wellness.winonastateu.com\/?p=499"},"modified":"2016-09-21T17:26:49","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T17:26:49","slug":"5-ways-to-deal-with-grief-in-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.winona.edu\/wellness\/blog\/5-ways-to-deal-with-grief-in-college\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Ways to Deal with Grief in College"},"content":{"rendered":"
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My friend Claire (left) and I (right) being our usual silly selves sophomore year of high school on choir tour in Chicago, just a few months before she was diagnosed with cancer.<\/p><\/div>\n

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You\u2019d think that exams, group projects and working several jobs would be enough stress to juggle but then the universe throws something at you that makes all of those other major stressors seem miniscule. College is hard but even doing simple things like a four-page reading assignment can seem next to impossible when you\u2019re dealing with the loss of a loved one.<\/p>\n

My senior year of high school I lost one of my best friends to cancer. I thought that going to college would make the pain much easier\u2014new situations, new people, a new environment. However I found that when I got here as a freshman a year and a half ago, it was just difficult in different ways.<\/p>\n

Although death is a natural part of life, it\u2019s never easy when someone close to you dies. Sometimes you see it coming and sometimes you don\u2019t\u2014neither is easier than the other. While it takes time to come to terms with death, there are things that you can do to soften the pain. Here are the things that have worked for me:<\/p>\n