What We Do

What are some signs that unresolved grief is the cause of my discomfort?

Unresolved grief tends to take people "out of the moment," that is to cause you to be off in conversations with people who are no longer physically there with you. This is not limited to death. You are equally likely to be lost in a conversation with a former spouse, still living, who is not physically present.... a divorce,

Assuming that your physical health is good, unresolved grief tends to:

• Drain you of energy

• Tends to close our hearts down.

• Busyness in our heads
• Difficulty focusing
• Anger outbursts

• Reclusive

• Live in the past memories

• Anxiety

• Inability to allow yourself to enjoy life 
• ....and more.
  

We protect" ourselves by not loving again.  We limit our loving exposure and thereby doom the new relationship to fail. 

Commonly, grievers will hide their true feelings for fear of being judged, getting lost in addictions, alcohol, drugs, sex etc.





The Grief Recovery® Workshop provides ultimate participation aimed at discovering and completing the unfinished emotional business that fuels our grief.




What makes us different than other programs?


Many grief groups provide an environment for people to verbalize the thoughts and feelings they experience following a loss. While there is benefit to that kind of expression, often it is not enough. Generally it will have a short-term benefit and not address the underlying issues of "incomplete emotional" communications that sustain unresolved grief. The Grief Recovery^® Workshop addresses the incompleteness so that there is long-term benefit, completing the pain and the unfinished emotions. the isolation.

What is the purpose of Personal Workshops?


To help each participant grieve and complete their relationship to the pain and unfinished business caused by a death, divorce or any other significant emotional loss.

When is it time to do my "grief work?"


This is the most difficult question facing grievers. Part of the problem stems from the biggest single inaccurate idea that we were all socialized to believe: that "time heals all wounds." Time does not heal. Actions can help discover and complete unfinished emotional business. When can I begin to discover and complete all of the things that I wish had ended "different, better or more," and all of the broken "hopes, dreams, and expectations" about the future? The answer is immediately. Waiting to do grief work is potentially dangerous. Most likely you’ve heard that grievers tend to create larger than life memory pictures in which they either "enshrine or bedevil" the person who died. This phenomenon increases with time, making it more difficult to discover the "truth" within the relationship.


How does Grief Recovery® differ from therapy?


Since there are so many different types of therapies, it’s difficult to give a singular answer. Grief is the normal and natural reaction to loss; grief is not, of itself, a pathological condition nor a personality disorder. Grief Recovery® is primarily an educational, or re-educational experience, based on the fact that most of us were never taught effective tools for dealing with grief. Most participants find that their subsequent therapy is enhanced by their experience in the workshop. In fact, many therapists refer clients to the workshop.