To me the question implies we can just get back to our lives the way they were before the death, and in that sense we don’t get over it. Grief is so much more complicated that that. To me the question implies we can just get back to our lives the way they were before […]
Last week I read two books I found rather appalling. Though supposedly on grief, neither of these books will be of any help whatsoever to people who are actually grieving. In fact they will likely do more harm than good. Though The Other Side of Sadness: What the New Science of Bereavement Tells Us About
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Recent research shows that in acknowledging fears prior to taking an exam, students improved their test scores. Huh? As one local newscaster said, “Most of us think ignoring our fears is the right thing to do.” And what does this have to do with healing grief? Everything. Many people believe ignoring grief is the right
Yesterday, I was slamming memoirs as being irrelevant to helping other people grieve, but personal experience with loss does matter. I believe that in order to work effectively with people who are grieving, you do need to have experienced grief…but you also need to have completed the grieving process. When I went back to graduate
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As I was walking on the beach the other day, I got to thinking. It seems so odd that as more and more research emerges about grief, cultural support for the grieving seems to be at an all time low. Grief wasn’t studied much before Elisabeth Kübler-Ross proposed the 5 stages of grief in the
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If you’ve followed me at all you know I am on a mission to debunk the whole idea of the stages of grief. This study clarifies some of what is understood as the stages of grief. This study supports what I’ve observed in people who are grieving. Though I don’t hear people use the word
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