Grieving Before A Death: Understanding Anticipatory Grief
- For Professionals
- Types of Grief and Loss
- Understanding Grief
- Litsa Williams
I spent a lot of time with my grandmother when I was growing up. When I was young, before I…
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Cumulative grief aka grief overload aka "holy crap I can't handle all this loss!!!"
- For Professionals
- Types of Grief and Loss
- Understanding Grief
- Litsa Williams
The other day we posted on the blog about different types of grief and we got a great comment pointing out…
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Types of Grief: Yes, there's more than one
- Types of Grief and Loss
- Eleanor Haley
This morning I entered the phrase ‘Types of Grief’ into Google and my search returned a surprising number of results.…
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Secondary Loss -- one loss isn't enough??!!
- For Professionals
- Types of Grief and Loss
- Litsa Williams
When we experience death the grief associated with the loss itself is excruciating. There are the obvious things we “expect”…
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Disen-whaaaat?? Understanding Disenfranchised Grief
- For Professionals
- Types of Grief and Loss
- Understanding Grief
- Litsa Williams
Disenfranchised grief: you may have heard this term thrown around and wondered what it is all about. Disenfranchised grief is…
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Grief Makes You Feel Like You're Going Crazy
- Emotion
- Understanding Grief
- Eleanor Haley
I'm afraid I've got some bad news for you; grief makes you feel like you're going crazy. In the beginning,…
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Comparing Grief: A Useless Endeavor
- Types of Grief and Loss
- Understanding Grief
- Eleanor Haley
I was struck by something WYG guest blogger, Nick Frye, said in his article Self-care in Grief: The Myth of…
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