Processing Grief and Loss

PROCESSING GRIEF AND LOSS

Although not spoken about, the feeling of grief and loss are the most common emotions currently experienced by the collective unconscious of humanity. Given all the extraordinary catastrophic world events that are surrounding us accelerating adaptation to a new normal, we have all lost something or someone. It could be a family member, friend, opportunity, jobs, freedom, community, mobility or innocence. Many may feel terrible discomfort, pain, and fear and have no label or insight to understand that it is grief. You could be grieving right now.

Grief is a complex emotion and it is experienced in five stages: Denial, Negotiation, Anger, Depression, and Acceptance. Yet unlike other emotions, grief is experienced in a culminative manner. For example, you may begin feeling the loss of your partner, but this loss becomes a doorway to let in every other previous partnership loss. So now you experience is…