Grief support groups are without a doubt the single most effective healing mechanism available to people who are grieving, but how do you evaluate the people running a group? I suspect that many people don’t seek out grief support, because they have no idea how to evaluate the expertise of the facilitators. As comforting as [...]
Yesterday, I was slamming memoirs as being irrelevant to helping other people grieve, but personal experience with loss does matter. I believe that in order to work effectively with people who are grieving, you do need to have experienced grief…but you also need to have completed the grieving process. When I went back to graduate [...]
I really hate grief memoirs. Why? Just because you’ve experienced grief does not make you an expert on grief. It only makes you an expert on YOUR grief. So why are so many people out there peddling products and services to help the grieving with no other credential than their own grief, and unhealed grief [...]
As I was walking on the beach the other day, I got to thinking. It seems so odd that as more and more research emerges about grief, cultural support for people who are grieving seems to be at an all time low. Grief wasn’t studied much before Elisabeth Kübler-Ross proposed the 5 stages of grief [...]
