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Sooner or later, everyone will grieve the loss of a relative or friend. The death of a loved one can make you feel alone and unsure of what to do. Grief impacts individuals at various levels of intensities. Grief counseling can help you identify and manage your thoughts, emotions, and behaviors related to the loss.
In a study of 33 recent widowers, researchers at Brandeis University were struck by poignant, emotion-filled metaphors of loss: “I feel I am in a long dark tunnel and have not found an exit yet.” “It was like a tsunami … like an enormous wave that crashes on your family and leaves you in a sea of silence.” “It’s like a hole that rips through your soul.
Every person's grief journey is different. Psy of Relief Counseling is here to give you the support you need. grief support therapist grief counseling Houston
COMPLICATED GRIEF
Intense sadness and waves of intense emotion are normal parts of the grieving process. If more than six months go by with no improvement, you may be suffering from complicated grief. The most common feature of complicated grief is intense, unremitting yearning and longing for the loved one.
Symptoms include:
DEPRESSION
Grief is different from sinking into a clinical depression. Talk with a professional if you experience any of these other symptoms of bereavement-related depression:
Every person's grief journey is different. Psy of Relief Counseling is here to give you the support you need.
The Grieving Child: A Parent’s Guide
Helen Fitzgerald
(Touchstone, 1992)
Written by the director of a grief program in a community health
center, this compassionate guide leads parents of children
from toddlers to teens through one of the most difficult tasks a
parent faces. You’ll find practical advice, such as age-appropriate
language to use when speaking about death with your children
and suggestions for dealing with their varied emotional
responses. Includes a forward by Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross.
Healing Your Grieving Heart: 100 Practical Ideas
Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D.
(Companion Press, 2001)
This classic book is packed with thoughtful coping strategies described briefly and compassionately. The author, a psychologist and grief counselor, has written many more titles in this series, including Healing Your Grieving Heart for Kids, Healing Your Grieving Heart for Teens, Healing a Parent’s Grieving Heart, and Healing the Adult Child’s Grieving Heart
It’s OK That You’re Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a
Culture That Doesn’t Understand
Megan Devine
(Sounds True, Inc., 2017)
Devine, a grief therapist and widow, challenges the cultural
norm that grief is something to be fixed or solved. Instead, she
gives readers permission to fully inhabit their grief and to move
through it on their own terms. As she puts it, “Grief is simply
love in its most wild and painful form.”