Presenting concern
There is no stage you are supposed to be in by now.
Grief arrives on its own schedule and rarely in the order the diagrams promise. It also does not require a death — the end of a marriage, a diagnosis, a career, a version of your life you were counting on, all grieve like losses because they are.
01Grief
Being accompanied
Erin describes herself as present in both struggle and progress. In grief work that is most of the job — steady company for something that cannot be fixed, only carried differently over time.
02Grief
When one image will not stop replaying
Sudden or traumatic loss can leave a single scene running on repeat. That is where ART is sometimes offered, so the memory becomes something you can visit instead of something that visits you.
03Grief
Grief and faith
For clients who want it, faith can be part of this work — including the anger at God part, which is more welcome here than it often is elsewhere.
Signs this is the right page
- Waves that arrive without warning
- Guilt about the timing of your own recovery
- A loss no one around you is naming as one
- Anniversaries you dread for weeks
None of this is a diagnosis, and no outcome is guaranteed. It is a starting point for a conversation.
In Erin's words
What she would say if you called today.
I am not going to move you along. Grief needs a witness more than it needs a technique, and my job early on is mostly to be present in it with you.
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