Grief
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Grieving Secondary Losses
Loss Produces Grief Any significant loss will produce grief. Whatever the main object of that grief is can...
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Ambivalence While Grieving
Simultaneous Contradictory Thoughts and Feelings Ambivalence, which is holding simultaneous contradictory thoughts or feelings, is a disconcerting experience...
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Grief And Despair
When confronted with the loss of an important human relationship the enemy is not grief but rather despair....
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Give Yourself Permission to Grieve
Many of us carry around our unfinished grief our whole lives. We don’t give ourselves permission to grieve...
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Minimizing The Pain of Grief
“The sorrow grows bigger when the sorrow’s denied.” – Eddie Vedder Probably the most common defense mechanism in...
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Subjected To Devastating Loss
When subjected to devastating loss the paradox is that our grief is uniquely ours and our unique burden...
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Be Patient With People Who Are Grieving
Loss affects everyone differently. One thing’s for sure though, when someone summons up the courage to confront and...
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Grief Is Supposed To Hurt
When confronted by the loss of something or someone we’ve grown accustomed to we’ll experience painful feelings of...
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Deep Existential Yearnings
At various times in our lives we’re gripped by powerful, confusing feelings of having lost something, or of...
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Helping People Move Through Grief
Grief is triggered by the irrevocable loss of something important to us. The mistake many of us make...
