: A grieving teen may find they have to help more around the house, especially when their parent(s) are also grieving. Teens are often asked to take on adult responsibilities like carpooling, childcare, emotional support, part-time jobs, and role model for younger children. Tip: Try to ...
When it comes to helping others grieve, most of us don’t know what to do. We attempt well-meaning gestures and try to say and do the right thing. Often times our efforts fall flat. Even worse, saying the wrong thing might put a wedge between you and the person grieving. It’s imp...
The article discusses the delicate issue of addressing the financial planning needs of a person whose spouse has recently died. In the immediate aftermath of a death planners should be prepared to simply listen to a grieving client without ...
Helping relatives cope with the grieving process. Grief may be a natural reaction to loss, felt by those most affected, within their own cultural context. Stage-theory approaches to grief may encourage people to think of grief in a simplistic or inflexible way. It is important to allow ......
I once heard a grief therapist say, ‘When people grieve, they have a deep need to be understood by others and very little patience for understanding others’. This resonated so much with my own experience: my own frustration and impatience with others while I was grieving. It took a long...
re going to be seeing a lot of people over the first couple of weeks following a death and it can be overwhelming. A letter can be held onto and it may provide comfort to the grieving in the weeks and months after the funeral is over and the chaos has settled down. This is when ...
pompous noses into the situation, that they didn’t even once stop to consider that this family was grieving. They lost their child. They found his body two days later. He was drowned. But they didn’t care. They sank their hooks into bashing a poor family that tried to do everything...
Benefits Of Joining A Grief Support Group There isn’t a specific method that people use to process grief. Losing a loved one is challenging, no matter the situation. Thus, people usually rely on various methods of grieving to process their loss. Grief support groups provide a safe space whe...
or she is probably angry, resentful, sad and lonely. It is natural to want to help a friend or family member cope. Providing a safe environment to express feelings and a helping hand can make a difference in this person’s physical and emotional health while grieving the loss of a ...