Grief coaching and therapy are often confused, but they are not the same. In this article, Heather Stang explains how each supports grieving people, when one may be a better fit than the other, and why training, scope, and grief-informed care matter.
While grief is like a roller coaster, and rarely feels “normal,” most of us have the natural capacity to make it to the other side. Along the journey we will feel a myriad of uncomfortable, intrusive and most of all unwelcome sensations. The pain we feel as a result of losing someone we love seems unfair, but it is natural, and while the loss itself is permanent, the intensity of pain will subside.
Grief changes you, but it also opens the door to new possibilities. Allowing transformation means honoring your loss while noticing how growth and resilience can emerge over time. This step of the Mindfulness and Grief System offers both reflection and practical tools to help you move forward without leaving your loved one behind.
Ronald Mathias talks to us about his field of medical illustration: the art of taking complex medical procedures, descriptions, or concepts and turning them into something visual for ease of understanding. He spends most of his time translating traumatic injuries and building empathy for the pain someone has suffered into a visual medium for litigation.
It’s hard to feel like a superhero while amid tremendous grief. But through her work composing Superhero Grief: The Transformative Power of Loss, Dr. Jill Harrington shows us how we are more like superheroes than you might think. Each superhero that you can think of has experienced some level of trauma that they’ve had to overcome. While their superpower may seem more significant than yours, the motivation to stand up and put one foot in front of the other is the same, whether you can fly or not.
