What is grief?

Grief can be best described as an experience of intense distress as a result of a tragedy that resulted in a loss. Such a loss can be personal and or community based.

Have you recently experienced loss of contact with someone you had a deep and meaningful relationship with?

Was this loss of contact caused by the person’s death? Terminal illness? Mental illness (such as Alzheimer’s or Schizophrenia? ) Incarceration? Or Emotional Abandonment?

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Have you recently experienced a tragedy? Did such a tragedy come at the cost of human lives?

Has this experienced left you feeling, numb? Angered? Fearful? Guilty? Lonely? Anxious? Abandoned? Irritable?

Since this experience or at least three months after this experience, have you experienced difficulty sleeping? Have you experienced vivid, troubling and reoccurring dreams?

Since this experience or at least three months after this experience, do you find yourself being unusually and overly sensitive? Do you find yourself being withdrawn from personal relationships?

Since this experience or at least three months after this experience, have you experienced a loss of interest? Do you find yourself being unusually forgetful? Do you find yourself experiencing a slower thought process?

If this experience involved the death of a loved one, do you find yourself searching for the loved one? Even when you realize that loved one is deceased?

Through counseling with Road 2 Resolutions, here’s what you can work to achieve.

You will learn to begin a healthier grieving process about your experience with loss.

If the event has to do with a loss of contact of someone close, you can complete the process of coming to an acceptance with the loss of the relationship.

You will learn to accept and cope with your most painful and difficult feelings associated with the loss, and reengage in your life.

You will learn to acknowledge and put aside all fears and anxieties regarding the possibility of a similar experience occurring in the future.

You will learn to resume previous functioning in all areas of your life.