13 Types of Grief + How to Treat Loss in Therapy
download our three Grief Exercises [PDF] for free. These science-based tools will help you move yourself or others through grief in a compassionate way.“Grief is the emotional reaction to a loss, in this case, to death” (Samuel, 2019, p.
xvii), and mourning is the process of adjustment to a world without that person.Grieving is about finding a way to live with a reality that we don’t want, breaking our sense of control over life and forcing us to confront our mortality.The intensity of our feeling of loss following the death of a loved one can be tied to our degree of attachment and experienced as physical sensations or difficult emotions.The following physical sensations and perceptual experiences often accompany the grieving process (modified from Worden, 2009):Strong emotions typically occur during grief, including (modified from Worden, 2009):It is important to note that each person’s experience of grief is different, and while the emotions above are typical of loss, they are not exhaustive.
Types of grief can take various forms, including (Elizz by SE Health, 2019; CaringInfo, n.d.; WebMD, n.d.):As professionals, but also as a society, “we need to learn to support a healthy grieving, and to help people to understand that each person goes at their own pace” (Samuel, 2019, p.
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