This week we will start our discussion about mourning, also commonly known as grieving, grief work, and the grief process. As I have written previously, mourning is the processing of a loss and our reactions to that loss. By processing the loss and our reactions to it, I mean how we adapt, adjust, learn to live with, and incorporate the loss into our daily lives. Mourning has two important facets: the private, internal process and the public, external process. We will investigate each starting today with the personal aspect.
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Welcome to my first posting on “The Journey Ahead"(changed to In Due Course in April 2008). As I sit down and start writing, I realize that you may be wondering what the significance of the title is and why I am discussing death, dying, and bereavement. I chose “The Journey Ahead” because of what each of us has ahead of us on our own life journey. Part of the journey ahead is suffering through the death of people we love, and part is experiencing our own death. You might ask, “Why should I want to have anything to do with death, dying, and bereavement, I’m not dying or grieving? Besides, that’s morbid!” Based on my professional and personal experience, I think there are two reasons to openly discuss these topics: one is more philosophical, the other is more practical.
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