Anticipatory Grief
Day 47: Anticipatory Grief Anticipatory grief is a normal human reaction to impending loss, including all of the thinking, feeling, and...
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khatch73
- Sep 13, 2021
- 2 min
Loss is Not a Singular Event
Day 46: Grief is Not a Singular Event When we grieve a major loss in our lives, the truth is that we will grieve many things within that...
khatch73
- Sep 13, 2021
- 1 min
Growing Up
Day 45: Maya Angelou’s Wisdom I hold Maya Angelou’s wisdom close in my work and in my life. I have noticed that deep grief offers a...
khatch73
- Sep 11, 2021
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9.11
In grief look and listen for the poets… The Names by Billy Collins Yesterday, I lay awake in the palm of the night. A soft rain stole in,...
khatch73
- Sep 9, 2021
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Grief & Suicide
Day 43: Grief and Suicidality, in honor of National Suicide Prevention Week In deep grief, it is normal to have thoughts about not...
khatch73
- Sep 9, 2021
- 1 min
Styles of Grief
Day 42: Styles of Grief We humans do better when we can name something, and one of the most maddening parts of grief is not always...
khatch73
- Sep 9, 2021
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Grief Must be Dosed
Day 41: Dosing Grief The theme of oscillation in grief is on the front of my mind lately. Another word for oscillation in grief is...
khatch73
- Sep 9, 2021
- 1 min
Morale Boost
Day 40: Morale Boost I’ve noticed the heaviness of my posts over the last few weeks. Even though this is reflective of a grief process,...
khatch73
- Sep 9, 2021
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Antidotes to Despair
Day 39: Antidotes to Despair As I walk with people in their grief, I am in awe of how humans keep getting out of bed and navigate the...
khatch73
- Sep 3, 2021
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Grieving & Living
Day 38: Grieving and Living Many of my clients arrive worried they are either 1) not getting grief right or not grieving enough or 2) not...
khatch73
- Sep 1, 2021
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Grief Mornings
Day 37: The Mornings In grief, I often hear about that moment one wakes up to a pleasant fuzziness or comforting unknowing. This...
khatch73
- Sep 1, 2021
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Guilt in Grief
Day 36: Guilt in Grief There are many ways we humans complicate our grief experience, and one that I see often is in our tendency to have...
khatch73
- Aug 30, 2021
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Grief PSA for National Grief Awareness Day
Day 35: Grief PSA Knowing what to say and even more importantly, what not to say, to grieving people can be tricky. Even as a grief...
khatch73
- Aug 29, 2021
- 2 min
Grief is Physical
Day 34: Grief is Physical I have been searching for years for a worthy description of the physicality of grief. I have finally found one...
khatch73
- Aug 28, 2021
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We Grieve @ every Developmental Stage
Day 33: Simply put, grieving at each developmental stage means grieving at each life transition. Such transitions might include marriage,...
khatch73
- Aug 28, 2021
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Where does my Grief Belong?
Day 32: Where does my grief belong? With the current horrors and terror in Afghanistan, I have been asking myself a question that I hear...
khatch73
- Aug 26, 2021
- 2 min
Something to Hold On To
Day 31: Something to Hold On To The reality of deep grief is that it often leaves us in a surreal fog, in which the world is...
khatch73
- Aug 26, 2021
- 2 min
The Unknown Evolves
Day 30: In grief, the unknown evolves Living during a pandemic has highlighted for me how much we humans don’t know, and how we have...
khatch73
- Aug 26, 2021
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Grief Bursts
Day 29: Grief Bursts What distinguishes grief from depression and anxiety (and truly any other experience) is the oscillating ups and...
khatch73
- Aug 26, 2021
- 1 min
Grief is a Crisis of Trust
Day 28: Grief and Trust In the book, About Grief, Ron Marasco and Brian Shuff, call out grief as “largely a crisis of trust.” This has...
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