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Grief Counseling Certification Article on Supporting Employees in Grief

Posted on by Dominick Flarey

Companies can help their employees during grieving processes and help better support them

The article, How Companies Can Support Employees Coping With Grief, by Kim Kohatsu states,

“Over the course of 2017, I endured the separate and unexpected deaths of three friends. Since these losses, I’ve done more than my fair share of mourning. But I’m lucky in one regard: I work for myself.”

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Grief Counseling Training Program Article on Ways to Help the Grieving

Posted on by Dominick Flarey

Good article for those who help grievers professionally or personally.  A good guide to help others face grief and find some solace

The article, 21 Ways to Help Someone You Love Through Grief, by Amy Hoggart states

“Seven years ago, my father was diagnosed with terminal cancer before dying three and a half years later. It was a horrible time, during which I relied heavily on support from friends and family.”

The article lists a variety of positive and negative things that should and should not be done when trying to help the grieving.  To read the entire article, please click here

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Grief Counseling Certification Article on Why Grief is Important

Posted on by Dominick Flarey

A good article with some thoughts on what grief is and why it is important although a negative experience.  Grief is the price of our love and social connections and we cannot survive without these connections but grief is also important in helping ourselves let go, to adapt and to also communicate to other social connections of our need of help in times of mourning

The article, Why is grief important?, by MEMBERS OF PENN STATE’S COUNSELOR EDUCATION GRIEF AND LOSS CLASS states

“The following are reflections from a counselor education grief and loss class at Penn State on why grief is important. Fifteen students contributed to the list.”

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Grief Counseling Certification Article on Talking to the Bereaved

Posted on by Dominick Flarey

Great article to help one understand the language and proper techniques to use with the grieving

The article, How to Speak Grief, by Rebecca Soffer and Gabrielle Birkner states

“Grief has a language all its own, but even the best therapists can get tongue-tied around the tricky stuff. Our grief vocabulary isn’t clinical, and you probably won’t find it in the self-help books that friends hand you after the memorial service.”

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Grief Counseling Training Article on Understanding Grief

Posted on by Dominick Flarey

Great article on understand grief

The article, Understanding Grief, by Jane Brody states

“Although many of us are able to speak frankly about death, we still have a lot to learn about dealing wisely with its aftermath: grief, the natural reaction to loss of a loved one.

Relatively few of us know what to say or do that can be truly helpful to a relative, friend or acquaintance who is grieving. In fact, relatively few who have suffered a painful loss know how to be most helpful to themselves.”

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Bereavement Counseling Certification Article on the Loss of a New Born

Posted on by Dominick Flarey

The loss of a new born can be the most painful type of loss one can ever experience in life.

This article looks at the pain and grief associated with it, When a Grieving Mother Talks, Listen , by Jen Gunter  states,

“There is a chance that you will receive a holiday card this year from someone who lost a baby right before or right after birth. Someone like me.

When someone who lost a baby puts together a holiday card, the family photo, if we are brave enough to include one, is never quite right because it is missing someone. The updates we write about our lives are always incomplete because there is an untold story.”

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Grief Counseling Certification Article on Barrenness

Posted on by Dominick Flarey

Good article about grief of not being able to experience child birth or have a child.  This type of loss is not a direct loss but an indirect loss of a particular experience which can be sorrowful as well

The article, Does it still hurt that I can’t have a baby?, by Danielle Ripley-Burgess states,

“I quickly entered the world that all new moms with babies know – the exhausting world of translating looks and grunts, cries and smiles. The world of praying the swaddle holds and changing shirts every few hours so you don’t smell like spit up. The tiptoes out of the bedroom once you finally get the baby to sleep.”

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Grief Counseling Certification Article on Marriage and the Loss of a Child

Posted on by Dominick Flarey

So many times the loss of a child can cause a marriage to fall apart.  These secondary losses are a result of the primary loss and the stress that emits from that loss.

The article, We Lost Our Newborn Baby. Can This Marriage Survive?, by Steve Almond and Cheryl Strayed states, 

“One thing that’s vital to realize is that it’s not the sorrow of a child’s death that tears certain couples apart. It’s a sense of isolation within that sorrow. You and your husband should consider it your central goal to share your feelings with one another, even and especially the difficult feelings: ones of helplessness, confusion, guilt, depression and even rage.”

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Bereavement Counseling Certification Article on Time to Grieve

Posted on by Dominick Flarey

Good article on the reality that grief does not just end immediately allowing one to return to life.  Some may have the luxury and the time to grieve but unfortunately many also do not have that ability to properly find the time they  need to grieve and recover.

The article, “Having Time To Grieve Shouldn’t Be A Luxury” by Ann Brenoff looks at why three days is not enough to recovery, she states,

“Lori McCoy was a supervisor overseeing 911 dispatchers in San Mateo County, California, back in 1991 when she got the diagnosis that her 6-week-old son Joshua had spinal muscular atrophy, a progressive neurodegenerative disease similar to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.”

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Bereavement Counseling Training Article on Addiction and Death

Posted on by Dominick Flarey

Good article on the nature of grief when things do not always end so well.  In these cases, there are a variety of ambiguous feelings as well potential guilt during the grieving process over the deceased.

The article, An Addict Brother’s Death; a Sister’s Guilt-Ridden Grief, by STEVE ALMOND and CHERYL STRAYED state,

“The most dangerous delusion we carry around when it comes to death is the notion that we should never speak ill of the dead. We erase their defects and destructive conduct. We gussy up their legacy and imagine them ascending to heaven.”

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