When you’re worn out from pretending that you’re “back on your feet,” when friends and family are urging you to “get out more,” when you find it too draining to keep up with life’s many responsibilities, it’s time to seek help.
Sometimes the loss is another person–spouse or romantic partner, child, sibling, best friend. That person may have died, moved away, abandoned you, gone to prison, or suffered an illness so severe that she is gone to you while still alive.
Sometimes the bereavement is complicated; the one who died turns out to be someone radically different from the person you thought you knew. Confusion, resentment, betrayal, compound the loss.
Sometimes you lose a part of yourself. Unemployment, sickness, depression, infertility, chronic pain can alter your sense of self. Accompanying that loss is loss of a dream and even of hope.
Don’t let your grief overwhelm you. Call me today.
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I was only 32; how could my diagnosis be stage 3 ovarian cancer? Candida understood. I could be real with her–my dread, my hopes, my side-effects complaints. Through talking and visualization, she helped reduce my anxiety and regain belief in my future. – C (Highland Park, IL)
Relevant articles from my blog
Complicated bereavement: Mourning someone you didn’t really know
If you want to know something about bereavement that slides from ‘normal’ to ‘complicated’ in a moment of revelation, due to unimaginable circumstances, you need look no further than to the mourning experiences of Julie Metz and Reeve Lindbergh.
National Cancer Survivors Day–the Good, the Bad, and the Neutral
There are only three possible outcomes after a major life event: things get worse, things get better, or things stay the same. Once you’ve had cancer, it’s not too likely that your life will ever be the same. OK, maybe with a tiny skin cancer. But I mean the big, scary CANCER, where your existence is threatened, the treatment costs you every last hair, and the mental losses are unaffordable by anyone’s standards.