I’ve built up a history and expertise in helping clients navigate grief. In society, there are unspoken norms for talking about grief. I hold a space for people, which goes against those rules. There is no grief too old or too small to talk about. Instead, I want to offer you the opportunity to share how you actually feel about a death or a loss. Feelings of grief aren’t neat and tidy – you may be feeling sad, but you might also be feeling angry, numb or resentful. I work with clients to explore the range of their emotions.
When talking about grief, it’s important to talk about the impact it has on your life. A death may change the way you see yourself and your identity. For example, you may have been estranged from the person who died, but now you have to grieve the loss of a possibility to repair that relationship.
Grief shows up in other ways as well. We can begin grieving for someone before they’ve died, particularly if they’re living with a life-limiting condition. We grieve the loss of pets, of people we don’t know, and of parts of ourselves and opportunities that we’ve lost. Sometimes we can find ourselves stuck living in an alternative outcome and reconciling that these things won’t happen can be hard to overcome.
Whatever your grief is, and whenever it occurred, we can work together to look at it from all angles. By offering you the room to talk about it honestly, you can make sense of what’s happened in a way that’s meaningful for you, and not to conform to the ideas of how we ‘should’ grieve.
