After Losing a Parent: Steps Towards Healing and Acceptance
When you lose a parent your world feels crushed and you may wonder how you can go on without them.
How your parent died has much to do with the healing process, but it is possible to heal.
You may be experiencing some of the feelings below:
Teens:
Do you want the sadness to just go away and to be happy again?
Are you tired of people feeling sorry for you and looking at you differently?
Is it difficult to talk about your mom or dad without crying all the time or shutting down?
Do you blame yourself for things that were actually beyond your control?
Adults:
Do you feel that your parent had more life to live, and that the future looks bleak?
Do you blame yourself for things beyond your control, or are you filled with regret?
Did you care for an aging or terminally ill mom or dad and watch them fade away?
You deserve to feel hope and peace while making sense of this loss.
Brief Grief Therapy offers steps that help you cry less, start to feel more love than sorrow and live a life that honors your loved one.
Death is a natural part of life. But we don’t have to grieve forever.
Brief Grief Therapy gives you life long coping strategies for all the times you will miss your parent (birthdays, holidays, random memories that pop up etc.).
Grief manifests in a variety of ways, with feelings of intense sadness, anger, or even numbness being quite common. It's important to remember that each individual's journey through grief is unique and valid in its own right. Give yourself permission to fully experience and process your emotions, reach out to others for support, and most importantly, be patient with yourself as you navigate this difficult path towards healing and acceptance.
Why seek grief therapy?
When it feels like more than you can handle or you are struggling to make sense of it all.
Grief is different because loss is something we all experience, yet we think we have to power through and let time heal us.
What if the healing were to happen sooner and last longer?