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Anxiety • Attachment Disorder • Codependency • Depression • Enmeshment • ​Family Conflict • Grief • Infidelity •
Life Transitions • Men’s Issues • Premarital Counseling • Self Esteem • Sexual Addiction • Spirituality • Stress • Trauma

Grief

The loss of a loved one — be it a human being, animal or even some presumed future expectation — is one of life’s greatest worries. Not everyone suffers grief in the same way. Significant amounts of deep pain and anguish can tear up one’s soul. As a result, the human mind tends to develop coping strategies unconsciously designed to avoid pain. In addition to strategies to mitigate pain, we all tend to process grief through a series of stages: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and hopefully reaching a cognitive and emotional level of acceptance. Grief can be prolonged and entrenched, lasting for months or years. Some consider deep loss tantamount to a personal rejection of sorts, all the while knowing rationally it is not so.

Shakespeare so poignantly penned in Macbeth: “Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.”
It is critical that we all speak through our grief and not let it rest and become chronically isolated.
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  • Home
  • Specialties
    • Anxiety
    • Attachment Disorder
    • Codependency
    • Depression
    • Enmeshment
    • Family Conflict
    • Grief
    • Infidelity
    • Life Transitions
    • Men’s Issues
    • Premarital Counseling
    • Self Esteem
    • Sexual Addiction
    • Spirituality
    • Stress
    • Trauma
  • About
  • Resources
  • Forms
  • Contact