Sad article on losing a child and the mourning and hardships that occur afterwards. Please also review our Grief Counseling Certification

The article, Life after the death of my child, states

“Before my eight-month-old daughter, Abby, died unexpectedly, I thought I knew plenty about grief. The pervasively popular five stages of grief model, developed by Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, was familiar to me: Feelings of denial, anger, bargaining, depression and finally acceptance would need to be worked through before coming out whole again on the other side.”

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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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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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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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Classmates can also grieve the loss of a friend or schoolmate.  It can also affect them mentally and remind them of their own mortality.

The article, Alone in my grief’: why some students are left to mourn alone when a classmate dies, by Rebecca Tan states

“When former College student Aran Rana of the Class of 2019 died in Hong Kong this year, his closest friends found out in the same way and at the same time that over 10,000 other undergraduates did: five paragraphs in an email notification from the University.”

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Sad Christmas article from TIME magazine.

In the meantime, remember many people feel great sadness during this time of year and not everyone experiences a merry Christmas.

The article, “Santa Claus Who Says Boy Died in His Arms Stands by Story Amid Doubts” by Melissa Chan states

“I tried to do a good deed. Now I am being made out to be a liar”

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It is never too soon to befriend this mysterious, unpredictable life experience that we will all undergo. Many of us cheat ourselves out of fully living life by refusing to discuss death until we absolutely have to. It’s impossible to experience the richness of life when we subconsciously cling to it.

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Elisabeth Kubler Ross brought it to attention to many.  Her ideas on death and preparing for it brought this once taboo subject into the daylight to be discussed among families and their terminally ill members, or any member.

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As a general rule, we hesitate to write about different types of loss.  To clarify, I am not referring to types of grief, which we’ve written about extensively.

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A good article about grieving the death of a sibling.  This is more traumatic than one may think, especially if one is younger.  Even if older, it still a reminder of our own mortality.  Siblings are life long friends that out live even our parental relationships.  They are very key to who we are.  Losing one is something that needs its own specific type of counseling

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Helping the Grieving Person

A grieving person needs emotional support.  The wrong words can be detrimental and counter productive to the person.  Below is a story about what to say and not say.

Gloria Horsley of the Huffington Post  lists many things to say and not say to a grieving person in her article, “What to Say (and Not to Say) to a Grieving Person”

“I was scheduled to be a guest on an early morning radio broadcast from Bakersfield, California. I am a family therapist, bereaved parent and president of Open To Hope, the world’s largest internet site with a mission of helping people find hope after loss.”

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