Grief can shake the ground beneath you and feel almost impossible to catch hold of. The topic itself brings with it discomfort, profound existential dread, and a confrontation with the unknown that can never be fully prepared for, yet all eventually experience.
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Grief in Context
Grieving can not be individualized and universalized. The amount of space and time given to grieve is variable and dependent on privilege. Whether you can take time off work, whether that time is paid - for some this not an option. This expectation to return to a 'functioning' and 'productive' body within society can be almost immediate. Life and its demands do not pause, and the pressure to do so can sit uncomfortably alongside loss.
The Learning Lens
Grieving is a process that, with support and tending to, can gradually shift, allowing us to develop a changing relationship with loss over time. This rarely happens linearly, as we all learn differently. Therapy can be a space to navigate this often isolating and monumental undertaking, together.
In therapy, we slow down the painful. In a world that keeps going, even after death, therapy can make time and space to grieve pace that feels right. Perhaps you are experiencing profound loss for the first time. The entire system needs time to learn how to adjust to a life that looks different than before. This adjustment is so painful that it is possible to interrupt the body's natural grieving process, without even realizing we are doing so.
In Therapy
I offer a gentle and collaborative space that might include:
⬙ developing an understanding of grief and how it shows up for you
⬙ examining the beliefs and assumptions that shape how we make meaning of loss
⬙ working with the grieving body
⬙ staying with painful and at times overwhelming emotions
⬙ staying with a sense of lack of coherence
⬙ exploring what might be unexpected within the grieving process
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