Grief
04/13/2021
This March marked the 1year anniversary of the covid 19 pandemic. During this past year, there have been many changes in our lives. These changes are life losses. Life losses are anything that causes significant change to our lives. Grief is a highly personalized and normal response to life losses. Taking time to look at how we have been dealing with grief allows us to increase our awareness of our patterns in our thoughts, behaviors, and emotions. Some unhelpful ways of coping include: distracting ourselves, avoiding issues of loss
Grief presents opportunities to grow. To become resilient. To find meaning and hope.
How can you move towards growth while in grief? By acknowledging it. By attending to it. By taking a look at how you have been responding to the pandemic and to the life losses and the significant changes in your life. By engaging in the active process of mourning and grieving, you are supporting yourself and engaging in the process of building resiliency. An opportunity to shifting from a victim stance to survivor stance and eventually to a conqueror stance.
A few questions to ask yourself as you are going through this pandemic are:
Websites: Resources
https://mindfulnessandgrief.com/
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/psychological-trauma-coping-and-resilience/202012/3-ways-grieve-when-your-grief-has-no-place-go
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/bravery-in-bereavement/202004/what-do-the-covid-19-pandemic-and-grieving-have-in-common
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/between-the-generations/201904/4-types-grief-nobody-told-you-abou
Nive Christodoss LCPC, CCTP is a licensed clinical therapist and certified clinical trauma professional with over 2 decades of experience providing psychological services. Nive specializes in CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy), DBT (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy) , ACT (Acceptance Commitment Therapy) and faith-based counseling to adults 18 and above. Nive develops individualized patient-centered treatment plans that utilize evidence based interventions and skills to provide support, accountability and psycho-education to clients to reach their therapeutic goals.
This March marked the 1year anniversary of the covid 19 pandemic. During this past year, there have been many changes in our lives. These changes are life losses. Life losses are anything that causes significant change to our lives. Grief is a highly personalized and normal response to life losses. Taking time to look at how we have been dealing with grief allows us to increase our awareness of our patterns in our thoughts, behaviors, and emotions. Some unhelpful ways of coping include: distracting ourselves, avoiding issues of loss
Grief presents opportunities to grow. To become resilient. To find meaning and hope.
How can you move towards growth while in grief? By acknowledging it. By attending to it. By taking a look at how you have been responding to the pandemic and to the life losses and the significant changes in your life. By engaging in the active process of mourning and grieving, you are supporting yourself and engaging in the process of building resiliency. An opportunity to shifting from a victim stance to survivor stance and eventually to a conqueror stance.
A few questions to ask yourself as you are going through this pandemic are:
- Have I experienced any significant changes to my life during this pandemic?
- Would I consider them to be life losses?
- Have I experienced grief this past year or am in grief currently?
- Have I attended to myself and supported myself?
- Support groups: Grief support groups, Faith based care groups, AA/NA support groups, hobby/interest related groups
- Faith / Spirituality: faith-based services and events at your local place of worship – church, synagogue, temple, mosque
- Faith based counseling by clergy
- Therapy – individual, couples, family, and group therapy
Websites: Resources
https://mindfulnessandgrief.com/
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/psychological-trauma-coping-and-resilience/202012/3-ways-grieve-when-your-grief-has-no-place-go
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/bravery-in-bereavement/202004/what-do-the-covid-19-pandemic-and-grieving-have-in-common
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/between-the-generations/201904/4-types-grief-nobody-told-you-abou
Nive Christodoss LCPC, CCTP is a licensed clinical therapist and certified clinical trauma professional with over 2 decades of experience providing psychological services. Nive specializes in CBT (Cognitive Behavioral Therapy), DBT (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy) , ACT (Acceptance Commitment Therapy) and faith-based counseling to adults 18 and above. Nive develops individualized patient-centered treatment plans that utilize evidence based interventions and skills to provide support, accountability and psycho-education to clients to reach their therapeutic goals.
