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Posts by Alexandra Kennedy MA, MFT
Ungrieved losses take a toll on our hearts and deaden us to life. We think we can avoid the pain of loss if we keep busy or close our hearts. However, the losses accumulate, and we shut down from life, from one another, and from ourselves.Suppressing our grief affects our relationships and compromises our aliveness. Grief can show up in symptoms such as chronic physical ailments, overworking, addiction,...
12/13/2023 5:00:00 AM
With the emergence of COVID-19, we have gone through massive changes in our world and a deep collective experience of loss. As the Coronavirus emptied our streets, closed our businesses, threatened our lives, and isolated us in our homes, we have experienced profound losses; now we struggle with what the world will be like in the days ahead. Already there are massive numbers of people dead all over...
7/13/2020 7:00:00 AM
Grieving is an intensely emotional and unstable process in marriage. As one or both partners grieve a loss, couples tend to downplay the extent of the stress it places on their partnership. They might not even recognize that escalation of fights or tension has its underlying source in grief.Marriages can expect to go through a period of turbulence. If a marriage or partnership is to survive this difficult...
4/7/2020 7:00:00 AM
Grief is one of the most humbling and challenging experiences we go through as human beings. It is also one of the most transformative. Grief changes us. We are no longer the people we were before that loss. We see through new eyes. Since grief works so deeply and slowly within our psyches, we often need the inspiration to stay with the process of healing.When we stay with this process for as long...
3/12/2020 7:00:00 AM
Over a lifetime we will experience many losses. In every stage of life, losing, leaving and letting go are essential parts of our ever-changing world. We cannot save ourselves, nor those we love, from the sorrow that is part of life. Family members die, friends drop away, cherished possessions are lost. Our children grow up and leave home. We lose spouses and partners to divorce or death; sometimes...
2/12/2020 8:00:00 AM
Each one of us carries, deep within, a well of grief that contains all the grief we have experienced in our lifetime. We can identify many of these losses—death of loved ones, divorce, loss of a home, health, or a job.As we grieve these big, life-changing losses we might experience other less apparent losses that are not acknowledged. My clients are often reassured when they realize that the pain they...
1/10/2020 8:00:00 AM
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