It was my counselor who told me about cumulative grief. Many other don’t know about it. When I tell them, many people tend to place more importance on one loss than the other. Many don’t see the financial or marriage loss being worth grief. Most don’t know how to hear what I ...
How do we deal with the feelings, particularly of bereavement? To help address this, I've asked Carole Fisher, the president of the National Partnership for Health Care and Hospice Innovation, and Jennifer Baldwin, a grief counselor at Capital Caring Health. Ladies, thanks for joining me. ...
Guilt is such an helpful issue to talk through with a therapist or grief counselor. If you contact your local hospice (even if your mum didn’t die in hospice) they often offer grief counseling services or can give you the contact of local grief counselors in your area. If you have trou...
Finally, if you are consistently experiencing troubling dreams night after night, consider speaking with a mental health professional. A therapist or counselor should be able to help you explore your experiences and strategize ways to cope with troubles related to sleeping. ...
Teens face significant changes and challenges. Counseling provides a compassionate and confidential space to process emotions, learn coping strategies, and develop resilience. With counselor support, teens can overcome obstacles and grow in self-awareness. ...
It’s raw and real and grief counselor Sharon Greaney-Watt of Babylon, New York thinks it’s great. “Afterlife speaks to the importance of connection as human beings, especially in such grief,” she said. “I think the show speaks to the process of integrating and managing one's grief,...
Pictures of your loved one.Looking through pictures of my uncles really helped me and my family. Remembering good times, funny moments, and speaking about their character, values, andpersonalitywas extremely beneficial to my family. Memorialize the loved one.There are various ways you can...
The cliches of grief feel belittling, as if another person’s death has parked you permanently in a high school counselor’s office. “Judging whether life is or is not worth living,” wrote Camus, “amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.” This is interesting in theory...
Discover your mission.There are enough suffering people in this world who need something that you have to offer. Maybe you understand firsthand the pain of loving someone with an addiction. You might become an addictions counselor. Or maybe your grief relates to losing a spouse slowly to the ...
My mother, who worked with parents of kids as a child psychologist and as a counselor for autistic children after college, would have been so proud that I took this job. All week I felt an overwhelming grief that I couldn’t tell her. That I couldn’t hear she was proud of me — ...