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Submitted by Douglas Newsom on 19 April 2021

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Loss is a part of the human condition, and grief can occur around any kind of loss, not just the loss of a loved one. So, why do we have so much difficulty accepting death, even when we know it’s expected from an existing illness, even though we know everyone dies. Why are so many stuck in grief?

Lyn Prashant, PhD is CEO and Founder of Integrative Grief Therapy. In the Art of Degriefing Part 2, Dr. Prashant and I discuss non-death losses and approaches to transform your grief and get unstuck. Again, according to Dr. Prashant, "Love is not the reason we grieve... IT'S ATTACHMENT."

Learn:
• What are non-death losses? How are children and adolescents affected differently than the elderly?
• Your heart knows in addition to feeling. What are embodied losses? How are they experienced in the body?
• Why Life’s temporary existence makes it a constant “catch-and-release” of what was in order to embrace what is.
• Everyone dies. So, why do we go into shock about expected deaths?
• Grief about divorce is really grieving the loss of the fantasy of the marriage
• How do we learn self-care in a world full of loss?
• Solastalgia – How global grief exacerbates personal loss/grief?
• How the energy of chronic, negative thoughts and feelings including grief becomes physical illness?
• A variety of approaches to transform your grief including: integrative mind-body therapies, self-skillful questioning, self-compassion, and self-care.
• Elisabeth Kubler Ross’ 5 Stages of grief is for people confronting their own mortality, not loved one’s mortality


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So many of us have suffered all kinds of loss (i.e. loved ones, relationships, jobs, money, homes, innocence) throughout our lives, some of which knocked us on our butts!

Lyn Prashant, PhD is CEO and Founder of Integrative Grief Therapy. In the Art of Degriefing Part 1, Dr. Prashant and I discuss grief and reframing it to aid your healing. According to Dr. Prashant, "Love is not the reason we grieve... IT'S ATTACHMENT. We don’t get over loss. We change our relationship to it."

Learn:
• How grief is the most available, yet most untapped emotional resource for personal transformational
• Why Life’s temporary existence makes it a constant “catch-and-release” of what was in order to embrace what is.
• How we can use the mind to help heal our heart through the mind-body connections
• The importance of curiosity and asking questions in your healing
• What are the causes of our struggle with grief?
• What’s the difference between primary and secondary loss?
• Why the body is the barometer of our truth?
• Why heartbreak has to do with attachment?
• How COVID-19 pandemic isolation created new age losses?
• What is conscious dying?
• How culture mis-applies Elisabeth Kubler Ross’ 5 Stages of grief?

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