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Family and Loss – In It Together
This article was originally published on goodtherapy.org on March 29, 2011 I facilitate a Family Issues and Loss group for adults. What I find interesting is how one topic almost always spills into the...
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Grief Mythology
This article was originally published on goodtherapy.org on February 5th, 2013. It is not unusual for someone who experiences a loss to romanticize the person, identity, or object they are grieving....
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Loss, Families and Acceptance
In thinking about loss we tend to focus on the impact it has on an individual but loss can present as a significant crisis in a family system. As with any crises; the event can act as a catalyst for...
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Suffering
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. –Aristotle When entering therapy some folks view treatment as...
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Time and Attention
The past or future can be hot spots for people who are in treatment as a result of a loss (death, career, marriage, identity) or trauma. In the grief and loss groups I facilitate, I spend a few...
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The Grief FAQ- Anniversaries
In the first article of this series we discussed the differences between adaptive and maladaptive grieving, remembering being one of several areas we covered. We are going to get into remembering a bit...
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The Grief FAQ- Avoidance
Back in November I wrote about how the field is shifting its thinking on complicated grief and some of the controversy surrounding the changes to grief as an exclusionary criterion for depression in...
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