A Grief Support Blog

This blog will allow you the opportunity to acquire both support and guidance after experiencing a significant loss.

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The Grief Of A Miscarriage

The grief of a miscarriage is often forgotten and ignored by others. This type of grief is frequently discounted and falls under the heading of Disenfranchised Grief.

What is a miscarriage?

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  • Sep 27, 2017
  • stephen moeller, grief recovery specialist
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Delayed Grief

The term Delayed Grief is used to describe grief that is postponed and resurfaces sometime later. It is not unusual, after a loss, that there are many things that must be done. Often people decide that they “must be strong” for all those around them and suppress their own feelings of pain and loss, so that they can be there for others.

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  • Sep 18, 2017
  • stephen moeller, grief recovery specialist
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Chronic and Prolonged Grief

Chronic and Prolonged Grief are two labels for grief that lasts over an extended period of time. The people so identified continue to suffer through their grieving experience for years without ever effectively moving through the grieving process.

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  • Sep 15, 2017
  • stephen moeller, grief recovery specialist
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Grief Support during devastating world events

One can’t turn on the television, listen to the radio, or scroll a news feed on social media without being bombarded by events transpiring in multiple areas around the world these days. The sheer magnitude of events transpiring is staggering…and the amount of grief being experienced is beyond words.
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  • Sep 13, 2017
  • Ed Owens
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Discounted Grief In Children

The term Discounted Grief has been replaced in professional circles with Disenfranchised Grief. Basically, this refers to issues such as divorce, the break-up of a relationship and moving, to name but a few, that others may not recognize as grief producing experiences.

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  • Sep 11, 2017
  • stephen moeller, grief recovery specialist
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Masked Grief

There are many ways in which people attempt to work through the grieving process. Those who recognize that grief, by definition, is an emotion and make a concerted effort to deal with what is emotionally incomplete in the relationship that has caused their grief, can be very successful in moving forward.

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  • Sep 05, 2017
  • stephen moeller, grief recovery specialist
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Hurricane Harvey

At the moment that I am writing this, the headlines on every news show and Internet news site are telling the story of the impact of Hurricane Harvey on Texas. The property destruction has been horrendous.

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  • Sep 01, 2017
  • stephen moeller, grief recovery specialist
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Anticipatory Grief

Anticipatory grief is most commonly associated to the feelings of grief felt by those who are dealing with a loved one’s impending death. A Place for Mom describes anticipatory grief as often being as intense as the grief experienced after a death itself.

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  • Aug 28, 2017
  • stephen moeller, grief recovery specialist
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Cumulative Grief

To say that grief can be challenging and overwhelming is an understatement. It’s not unusual for a griever to feel like their whole world is closing in on them. They will often find that they are not only dealing with the emotional pain of their most recent loss, but every other loss they have experienced as well.

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  • Aug 21, 2017
  • stephen moeller, grief recovery specialist
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The Steps of Grief

Working your way through the emotional pain of any loss is very much like following a path along a road. Depending on the number of losses you have dealt with in your life, parts of the path may seem very familiar. With each loss, however, we encounter a different fork in that path that is both confusing and unfamiliar.

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  • Aug 15, 2017
  • stephen moeller, grief recovery specialist
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