However, sitting within the emotional armor phase allows you to go back into the struggles of your grief, with greater agility and understanding. Initially, you may find yourself in this phase, coupled with the other phases. Remember, the response to loss does not follow any certain path...
Walking through the storm of grief that accompanies the death of a loved one is harrowing. It is traumatic and confusing. Turmoil ensues in the first hours and days of the death and gives passage to a journey of unspeakable suffering. Unfortunately, it is during these heart-rending times that...
Forgiveness:Many spiritual teachers talk about thenecessity of forgiveness. The sooner we can get through the stages of grief and get to forgiveness, the better of our inner worlds become. I know we don’t take pain and trauma with us when we die. I know it is washed away.Bringing the ...
I badly needed help to navigate through my grief. Instead, Stuart abused the position of trust he enjoyed as my therapist and I became ensnared by a man who was bereft of professional principles and integrity.It was four years before I was able to extricate myself. By then, the damage ...
Concurrently, there was a lot of shock and grief. I was supposed to be hosting readers on food walks in Oaxaca, but instead I was in a lot of pain, more and more deconditioned by the day. From people I spoke with and case studies I read, several months of leaking meant sealing the...
At seven months, I still think about my dad’s passing daily. However, the thought process remains above surface level. How often am I supposed to dig in and think about the permanence of his absence? How long should I hold my breath of grief before I start to drown in it?
Though wrapped in fantasy, All of Us Strangers (2023) is focused on grief through a deep emotional lens and uses superior acting to tell its story. Independent Spirit Award Nominations:Best Film, Best Director-Andrew Haigh, Best Lead Performance-Andrew Scott ...
As I was thinking about this grief, it reminded me of the 5 stages of grief that psychologists use to describe the stages we go through while mourning. And, perhaps not surprisingly, the stages fit quite well with what I’m experiencing right now with my own Coronavirus Grief. Denial and...
that point, Iwasbeing a b*tch about it. But still, she didn’t. She had lots of opportunities to do the right thing long before I nearly snapped and considered ramming her car, but doing the right thing was nowhere on her radar…although it would have saved us both a lot of grief....
The client is not a patient, not “disordered,” and not somebody who is “less than” the therapist. Examples look like: allowing tears to fall, swearing or using explicit language, laughing at a client’s joke, self-disclosing a small piece of personal information to relate to the ...