Grief, Loss and Mourning
Often clients will come to therapy because of a loss. Typical examples are relationships, jobs, or the death of another, usually a family member. I tend to recommend two books: How To Survive The Loss of A Love — a very popular inspirational book, which is short enough so it can be read and reread, and Transcending Loss — a sobering classic book that addresses the ongoing impact of death and how the perception of the death/loss changes over the course of one’s life.
Locally, we have a wonderful resource with the Center for Living with Dying, which has a nice educational component to its services, and includes a group counseling format that often can work at least as good, if not better than, as individual treatment.
Healing from loss takes time and energy to process. What can complicate the grieving process is that there may be prior unexamined psychological issues of many stripes. In addition, the present grief incident often stirs up/ forces one to revisit those earlier losses that may or may not have been dealt with by the griever. So what may start out as an uncomplicated grief gets processed with earlier losses from the past. In the long run, this crisis can be re-experienced as an opportunity to you to acquire better coping mechanisms for the present and the future, as well as to properly heal the previous losses or wounds.
Grief, Loss and Mourning
Often clients will come to therapy because of a loss. Typical examples are relationships, jobs, or the death of another, usually a family member. I tend to recommend two books: How To Survive The Loss of A Love — a very popular inspirational book, which is short enough so it can be read and reread, and Transcending Loss — a sobering classic book that addresses the ongoing impact of death and how the perception of the death/loss changes over the course of one’s life.
Locally, we have a wonderful resource with the Center for Living with Dying, which has a nice educational component to its services, and includes a group counseling format that often can work at least as good, if not better than, as individual treatment.
Healing from loss takes time and energy to process. What can complicate the grieving process is that there may be prior unexamined psychological issues of many stripes. In addition, the present grief incident often stirs up/ forces one to revisit those earlier losses that may or may not have been dealt with by the griever. So what may start out as an uncomplicated grief gets processed with earlier losses from the past. In the long run, this crisis can be re-experienced as an opportunity to you to acquire better coping mechanisms for the present and the future, as well as to properly heal the previous losses or wounds.