There are many reasons why one would grieve, which go beyond what we typically feel describes grief (ie death, loss). Even though death and dying are an example of grief process, the process does extend to many other areas of life. These include loss of a relationship, loss of a role in life (eg as a provider), loss of physical capacity and so on. As such, grieving is an underestimated process and we often overlook the need to give ourselves space and time to grieve and recover from the valuable something we have lost.

Working psychologically with your grief is a combination of having support,a space to explore and express a variety of emotions & experiences that happen in your grief & working together to manage your grief on a practical level (ie how to grieve and still live). This process is so different for everyone but having a professional help you through various stages of this arguably, most challenging process in life – can mean the difference between surviving and thriving beyond grief vs giving up or drowning your grief in various distractions (or destructions). Grief in itself is a state of facing our own humanness and as humans at best we struggle. Meeting an external tragedy without support to our inner world easy becomes double tragedy and even more collateral damage.