Safe space and compassionate listening are the foundations of bereavement counselling.
Having trained with the Grief Recovery Institute, I follow the outline of their program, tempering it with spiritual exercises.
Studies have shown that it can be very helpful to organize one's thoughts and name one's emotions while addressing one's sense of loss through directed journaling.
Discussions with others who have come to care about your losses as well as their own, highlighting the insights gained, provide healing and the building up of new relationships.
These new relationships do not usurp one's relationship with the one who has died, but rather, one finds intimacy restored as others honour the unique particularities of that important relationship which has been altered but not destroyed by death (or physical/intellectual impairment or divorce).
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