From the course: Dealing with Grief, Loss, and Change as an Employee
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Moving through grief
From the course: Dealing with Grief, Loss, and Change as an Employee
Moving through grief
- Moving through grief is uniquely personal. There's really no one-size-fits-all. And there's no specific allotted time as to when grieving should be over. From her work with thousands of individuals Christina Rasmussen, author of the book "Second Firsts," and creator of the Life Reentry Model, suggests that it is incorrect to say that grief lasts forever. She believes that the suggestion that it does last forever, robs the possibilities of growth and transformation that can occur in one's life. Instead her view is that grief and life walk right beside each other. And when you are ready to let go of the identity of who you were before the loss, and claim the identity and the life of who you can be going forward. That is when your grief will begin to subside. It has to do with your readiness to lean into and live a life that takes you beyond who you were, and what you have known in the past to something new. Away…
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