Good article on the grief we can experience when we hear of others pain and grief or tragedies.  As grief counselors, one can experience great empathy and relate to others pain and loss.  How we process it and deal with it is part of the price we take as listeners. Please also review our Grief Counseling Certification

The article, Hearing someone else’s tragedy carries own grief, by Ted Wiard states,

“Healing and connection happen with the willingness to share thoughts and emotions. If this could safely happen more often, my guess is there would be less isolating and fearful feelings that lead to wedges within our society, rather than unification.”

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Good article on grief and how it affects any loss, including losing a job. Losing a job is very much a grief many experience and very few acknowledge. Please also review our Grief Counseling Certification

The article, The ‘Disenfranchised Grief’ of Losing Your Job, by Catie Lazarus states,

“It’s comforting to know people like Meg Spinella, a hospice chaplain, exist. Spinella radiates empathy, even as she jokingly describes herself as “more of a ‘shit happens’” than “an ‘everything happens for a reason’ person.” It certainly felt more like the former when, in 2007, budget cuts bumped her out of the Catholic hospital she worked at in Oregon. Spinella didn’t get to say goodbye to her dying patients.”

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