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Grief and Loss Explained
Loss can be painful, relieving, confusing, exhausting, consuming and many other emotions too. Whichever emotions you feel, during your grief, is a normal response to a loss, even when you feel these at the same time! It is a unique experience to the person who is grieving and is an experience that needs support from others. In order to do that, there needs to be an understanding of what that looks like. Being able to understand what the grieving person may be experiencing goes a long way to actually being able to help them. We know that grief is a normal response to a loss. It can also be complicated due to the very nature of being human and the influences in our lives. The intensity and length of the experience of grief varies and is unique to each of us. Grief can bring about many challenges. Affecting relationships, our own beliefs, our world as we know it. Having support from others can help us to deal with changes brought on by the loss we have experienced. Support can help us to navigate through the changes and the challenges change can bring. Quite often we don’t know what to say to someone who is experiencing a loss. The person experiencing the loss may want to be in your company so they are not alone, or to be listened to. Others may need to put their ‘loss into action’, by joining a group or starting a project. What can we do to support those who have suffered a loss?
Whether it is you who is experiencing the loss or someone you know, the experience can feel there is a lack of control, which can lead to a sense of helplessness. What can we do for ourselves?
Email if you would like to know a little more about how we can work together to make your desired change. theresa@connectingdotscounselling.au
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