Grieving for Myself

Grief is often about losing a loved one, when a family member, a friend, or somebody close dies.  We feel this deeply and we have rituals that we go through when this happens.

 

A person may lose part of themself and very much feel loss, but not relate to this as grief.  This is Grieving for Myself, which is in some ways very much like grief for someone else and in some ways different.  Grieving for Myself may happen from loss of different things:

• loss or reduction of my health

• losing my job or ending an activity that I was very connected with

• disruption of my planned future, so a part of my life will not flow as I wanted or expected

• loss of someone/something we feel very connected with such as a partner, a pet, a habit, an object, or other part of our life

• other losses

Grieving for Myself is a way of relating to these kinds of losses including dealing with the loss, finding ways to remember, and building our life after the loss.