It is important to recognize that each person transitions through grief differently. There is no right way or wrong way to transition through loss thus, the experiences of grief may change from moment to moment, day to day. The grief sessions are designed to support you no matter what your state or stage of grief is and to provide you with skills to support you through the healing process.

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The Impact of Sudden or Expected Loss

When experiencing loss, whether it is experienced as sudden (accidental) or expected (illness), mindfulness is at the core of everything we do in being with loss, giving deep attention to what is happening to us and around us in every moment. It is the breath that sustains us and helps us to heal from loss.

Awareness

Curious Observation

Cognitive Flexibility

Attitudes of Mindfulness

Focus

Surviving the Firsts Birthdays Anniversaries Holidays

Holidays, Birthdays, Anniversaries approach with seemingly lightning speed and can have such a powerful grip on our heart after suffering the loss of a loved one. In mindfulness, we call this process "Getting Through the Firsts", taking time to acknowledge each moment and these "firsts" with a grateful heart, especially as each one approaches.

Surviving the Firsts:  Birthdays, Anniversaries, Holidays

Holding on/Letting go: Rituals and Remembrances

Clothes remain hanging in the closet, shoes exactly where they were last worn, and pictures arranged like a sacred altar. When experiencing intense grief from loss, it is difficult to let these remembrances go or to decide if letting them go is even necessary.

Holding on/Letting go: Rituals & Remembrances

Moving Toward Acceptance Through Compassion

Do you remember how it was those first weeks and months after your loss? Taking care of a task that your loved one always took care of, going to a concert alone, waking up to the silence of loss? And now, maybe months or even years later, you begin to sense something changing. The pain is not as intense, the hurt is still there. Perhaps your grief has shifted gently toward deeper acceptance.

New Beginnings From Grieving to Gratitude

It happens when we least expect it, a day you had longed for and seemed it would never arrive. We never really thought it would happen...waking up to rediscovering joy in our lives from loss, smelling the freshness of each new day as a gift, realizing that the grand illusion in this life is that we have tomorrow.

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