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Caring Beyond Our Lifetime: The Gift of Putting Our Affairs in Order
As I sit here staring at my computer screen with so much to say, I find myself noticing some significant hesitation. It is not the subject itself that has me hesitate, but the importance I feel in what I want to share and wanting it to be written in a way that it might be heard in a different way. In a way where it is embraced with openness, rather than pushed away in discomfort. There is a reason I have chosen grief and loss to focus on in my counselling practice. It is
Lisa Wilder
May 277 min read
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Disenfranchised Grief: The Pain of Unacknowledged Loss
There are those kinds of losses that are met with care. People show up, meals are dropped off, and messages come in. There's space, however imperfect that space is, for the pain to exist. Then there are those losses that don't get that same acknowledgement, instead they go unsupported, unnamed, and unrecognized. Those losses you carry all on your own. This is what is often referred to as disenfrancised grief. That grief that isn't openly acknowledged, socially supported, or
Lisa Wilder
Apr 143 min read
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