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Mourning the needed and did not have brings a need to mourn the caregiving that was needed and not received while the parent that you experienced is still alive and still calling. In my practice I watch this stall trauma work: as long as…
Sometimes grief arrives when you aren't expecting it. You may have been apart for months, or even years. You may know that ending the relationship was the right decision. You may have rebuilt much of your life and rarely think about the…
Grief anger is the irritability that surfaces after a loss and lands on whoever is nearest: a partner, a coworker, a stranger in a parking lot. It's the most available feeling, not the truest one. Underneath usually sit sadness, fear, or…
A chosen support circle is the small set of people you deliberately keep close: friends, neighbors, a coworker, a therapist. For adults grieving a parent who hurt them, building that circle often pays off faster than repairing the family…
Grief shows up for far more than the person who died. It arrives when a friendship fades, when a job ends, when a body changes, when the life you expected doesn't come, when a place you loved gets sold, when a version of yourself no longer…
Childhood community loss is the early experience of losing your neighborhood, friend group, or sense of belonging through moves, school changes, or family disruption. It shows up decades later as difficulty trusting that people will stay,…