It is always difficult when we lose someone or something we care about and love. Making the decision to receive help and support during this time is often hard. Review this list of normal responses to loss. If any of the items on the list are negatively impacting your life, you may find it useful to call Carol at Learning Dynamics.
- Extreme fatigue
- Difficulty in sleeping
- Loss of appetite
- Uncontrollable tears
- Feelings of anger and rage
- Difficulty getting along with others
- Feeling like no one understands or is there for you
- Difficulty in concentrating
- Unable to carry on with typical daily activities.
Carol works with people and offers counseling from a perspective of faith (if desired), love and hope. Many people state after counseling with Carol, they feel heard, understood and a sense of peace, resolve and personal growth with their loss. Carol is available to meet with you at your convenience in either her office or your home. Call Carol today at Learning Dynamics (720) 406-7995 for her next available appointment.
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Loss and Transition
Learning the Dynamics of Personal Loss and Transition
When we have lost someone or something we deeply love or care about, the pain often seems unbearable. Our heart feels like it has been ripped out and the tears unstoppable. For others, there are no tears, but uncontrollable anger and frustration where only immersing themselves into activity after activity is the only way to deal with the emotion. What ever the reaction to losing someone or something, this is a scary time and we often feel helpless in our ability to control our emotions and navigate through life in general.
Understanding that coping with loss is a natural and normal process is sometimes useful. After experiencing loss, people generally follow a typical emotional process. Understanding what is happening is often useful. It helps to insure that you are not going crazy and that you are indeed a normal functioning person.
Carol, at Learning Dynamics, offers each person tender loving support during this difficult time. This is done by allowing the person to share their loss and their feelings in whatever way that works for them. There is not one way to cope with loss and we all do it differently. How we do this depends upon our personality and our past experience with loosing people, jobs, pets and things that are important to us.
Working through Loss, Transition & Reconstruction
Dealing with the loss of someone we loved or something we have lost is hard work. It takes an enormous amount of energy. We often fight this process of loss by stuffing it or avoiding it. Working through loss is allowing oneself to experience what ever feelings are there at what ever point we are in the process. Once we allow ourselves to experience the emotions, we can than deal with the loss and begin to resolve the issues around the loss that are impacting our life while reconstructing our life, incorporating the loss Experience.
We can always count on loss to strain relationships with family and friends. People are generally uncomfortable with loss and don't know how to respond appropriately. Consequently, they say all the wrong things that hurt our feelings and leaves us feeling alone and abandoned. It takes work and support to navigate through this difficult time, to insure our relationships with important people in our lives remain intact.
Our faith and spirituality are often challenged during loss. The one thing that has always been steadfast seems to be nonexistent and inaccessible. Again, it takes perseverance and courage to deal with these seemingly unthinkable thoughts and feelings.
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