Nate, a grad student studying communication, returns to talk with Melissa and Leann about grief as loss and reframe the common myths associated with grief.
Ponder Questions:
Am I trying to “fix it” and make someone who is grieving feel better?
Am I able to show empathy and compassion to someone who is feeling intense emotions?
How can I be there to support someone else in the grieving process?
Am I able to witness and validate others’ emotions and my own?
Am I allowing myself and others to have their own grieving process?
Am I diminishing others' losses?
Am I compartmentalizing my emotions?
Invitation:
Choose to accept the gifts that grief offers and show yourself self-compassion as you partner with Christ.
References:
The Kübler-Ross model of the five stages of grief, originated in Of Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Familiesby Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
The Grief Recovery Handbook: A Program for Moving Beyond Death, Divorce, and Other Devastating Losses, John W. James and Russell Friedman
The quote "When a person adapts to a loss grief is not over,” is from the Center for Complicated Grief at Columbia and is cited in Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience, Brenè Brown, pgs. 110-111
Connect With Us: awakenings@googlegroups.com
If you have any comments, questions or suggestions, we would love to hear from you. You can also find us on Instagram at @awakeningspodcast, where we will share quotes, ponder questions, affirmations and an invitation from that week’s episode throughout the week.
We are grateful for our production team: Ben, Sydney, Kinzie, Lyndee, Analese and David.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
