Individual Therapy for Grief
Dealing with loss is an individual experience. The person that you loved and lost was completely unique and so is the loss, both tangible and intangible, that you experience when they are gone. While it is a popular phrase that “it gets easier over time,” the truth is that time is relevant when you are experiencing grief. It doesn’t always seem to pass by when you are living each excruciating minute by yourself.
The first year is understandably difficult as holidays and personal days of celebration such as anniversaries and birthdays bring up any grief and pain that was in the background, both burning and numb. Most people mark their year with anniversaries and birthdays, holidays, and special moments that have been remembered. Those days and even those leading up to it can turn into your personal days of grieving a loss.
What happens when these anniversaries and special days only serve to increase your pain, year after year? For many, the answer is individual therapy to help them overcome the crippling grief that has not lost its hold.
Individual therapy can offer you an environment to express your grief and your pain in words and tears that are not judged but rather listened to and supported in a healthy environment that focuses on healing. A counselor can help you focus on your grief without ever losing sight of the life that you still have to live and eventually help you move that focus onto your life as it is now, without ever losing the memory or the love that you lost.
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Great post
Both parents have died, and are better places.In therapy, still grieving hard. How does one stop the pain?