by griefcenterweb | Jan 18, 2021 | Communal Grief, Grieving Adults, Self Care
As Covid-19 and our country’s political crisis continue to rage on, it becomes increasingly difficult to cope with and manage our fears and anxieties. We are enduring so many losses. In fact, there’s a kind of hazy, threatening cloud of grief hanging over...
by griefcenterweb | Dec 8, 2020 | Communal Grief, Self Care
Never in our collection living memory have we been forced to persevere through the social, economic, and psychological consequences of a pandemic. And it is hard to articulate a set of emotions that seem to defy articulation. But language used well can help. The words...
by griefcenterweb | Aug 19, 2020 | Articles, Communal Grief, Grieving Adults, Resources, Self Care, Uncategorized
Among other challenges, the coronavirus calls us to reorganize our consciousness about death and dying. Perhaps the sudden plunge into mortality forced upon us by the pandemic can inspire new ways of being helpful and useful to each other, even while we grieve and...
by griefcenterweb | Jun 10, 2020 | Articles, Communal Grief, Resources, Self Care
Despite the anguish of grief, under normal social circumstances most people move through its demands well enough. We are resilient despite our losses and the upheaval they generate. However, things are different now under Covid-19 conditions. Usually friends can...
by griefcenterweb | Jun 3, 2020 | Articles, Communal Grief, Notes from the Center, Psychotherapy and Counseling, Resources
“The Greek word “apocalypse,” as you may have heard me say in On Being interviews of recent years, does not mean a catastrophic undoing. It means an uncovering — the lifting of a veil. The Covid-19 virus — a product of the natural world, spread by human contact...
by griefcenterweb | Nov 9, 2018 | Communal Grief, Grieving Adults, Psychotherapy and Counseling, Resources, Self Care
At a mental health provider training that I attended not long ago, at one point the facilitator was attempting to communicate how survivors of trauma often feel frighteningly out of control even in the most secure and benign situations. In a tone that suggested he...
