Grief Recovery and Support
Linda Marshall is a member of the Grief Recovery Institute where she completed training to help individuals in the grieving process. It is important to recognize that we all grieve and that is a normal response to a loss. Through Health with Heart, Linda can help you understand your feelings and focus that energy in a productive, life-affirming manner. Grief is not only the result of losing a loved one or friend, it can result from any loss throughout your life.
What is Grief Recovery?
Grief Recovery is an action-based program for moving beyond death, divorce and other losses. This program was created by John W. James and Russell Friedman. It is based on grief, which is a normal and natural emotion. However, grief is also a neglected and misunderstood experience by all parties involved.
What type of Grief Services do you offer at Health with Heart?
Linda is trained to offer various forms of grief support. Some viable options are grief recovery groups that allow individuals from different situations to share ideas and thoughts, helping each other; family discussions concerning a topic everyone identifies with; and individual meetings to deal with specific grief issues. The overall outcome of any of these meetings is to help you work through the grieving process and continue to live a productive life despite your loss. It is important for you to validate your loss and allow yourself to grieve. In turn, these steps will allow you to move on when you are ready.
Why is grieving so hard to initiate and endure?
Grieving is so hard to initiate and endure because since we were children, we were taught to either not show our emotions, or to hide them. Many of us were taught that if we were "bad" we would lose things...and others that they lost what they had because they didn't take good care of it. The truth is, we all begin experiencing loss as babies. As newborns, we have yet to be taught that crying is bad, so when we lose our pacifier, we cry. As toddlers, the same result may occur as our parents leave for work in the morning, or we lose a family pet. More often than not, we were told to stop crying and eventually we did.
Unfortunately, what those experiences taught us was to hide our emotions and to push our losses aside for another day. That day may not come until a larger loss occurs, such as the loss of a loved one. So throughout our lives, most of us have built up this overwhelming amount of grief, and when that inevitable, undeniable loss comes, we grieve for it all. In total, all of these losses feel overwhelming. It may seem useless to even try to reservoir your life from the pile of rubble that lay beside you, but it is worth it, and you are worth it. This is precisely why Linda has trained in this area - to help you sort through all of that debris and free yourself from those exhausting feelings of being overwhelmed.
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