From the course: Dealing with Grief, Loss, and Change as an Employee
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Anticipatory grief and lost potentials
From the course: Dealing with Grief, Loss, and Change as an Employee
Anticipatory grief and lost potentials
- I look at the coronavirus pandemic and the simultaneous downturn of our global economy as a time of profound loss and profound vulnerability, or heightened vulnerability. In fact, the losses are almost too many to mention. Topping the list is loss of life, followed by loss of health, work, wages. A loss of face to face contact and loss of easy movement in nature. Loss of familiarity, loss of predictability, and the loss of our sense of stability. There's also worry over what I would call an anticipated negative future and also the loss of a positive imagined future. The first one is known as anticipatory grief. The second one I call grief over lost potentials. Now anticipatory grief is the mind going to the future and imagining the worst. Because of so much uncertainty, the focus is one what bad might happen. An awareness of something ominous breaks one's sense of safety. To deal with anticipatory grief, you can…
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