Grief-Growth© recognizes the terrible pain that comes with Grief, and also recognizes that Grief can open space for Growth in a very special way.  Grief-Growth puts Grief and Growth together into one.

My grief is from the dementia that is destroying my life and hurting my family so badly.  Grief-Growth allows me to see my grief in a different way as well -- that my continuing disintegration is also (for now) opening up space that allows growth in my life in unexpected and unfamiliar ways.

Some examples of how Grief-Growth adds growth to grief in a person's life, in the case of dementia, are:
 

• Impairment/Enhancement:  An initial diagnosis of dementia immediately brings grief, even with the words often used in the diagnosis: a person is now defined by MCI Mild Cognitive Impairment and quickly feels grief and fear from being impaired and decreased from what they have been.  Grief-Growth gives an additional way to relate to this horrible situation: changes such as lower brain/thinking activity open space for increased gut/feeling activity.  With Grief-Growth the person can now define themself by MEE Mild Emotional Enhancement -- there is growth in one part of a person's life even while there is grief in another part.  MCI-MEE is a clear example of what Grief-Growth can bring.

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• Thinking/Feeling:  The reduction in brain capability is especially emphasized in a world that is focused on Mindfulness.  Grief-Growth shows that the grief of less thinking brings the growth of more feeling and the value of in a person's life of adding Feelingfulness to Mindfulness.
   

• Meaning of Dying/Value of Living:  Grief-Growth changes the relationship between dying and living.  Knowing that a person is dying makes their life more immediate and richer, and the fact they are still living allows a person to make their dying more meaningful.

 

• ​Tombstone/Lifestone:  Grief-Growth helps us to create our tombstone in a way that it is our lifestone that guides whatever living we have left.
   

• Burden/Release: Grief-Growth is dynamic and constantly changing with changes in a person's condition.  Situations that bring the terrible burden of grief can also bring the release of finality with its own impacts.
   

Grief is full of pain and loss.  Grief-Growth adds growth to grief to create a different experience which is grief and growth together.  Grief-Growth also provides a language for relating to grief in a way that includes growth together with the grief.

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Grief-Growth is completely different than Grief or Growth separately, and is part of TheAlzheimersConversation.com.  Grief-Growth is described in more detail in the video at Grief-Growth: Growth That Comes Out of Grief - Passcode: R1R.7ZCr