Source: Engin Akyurt from Pexels, used with permission. I write this in the week after a first cousin who died last summer would have turned 50; one year to the day after a dump truck driver got distracted, struck, and killed a different first cousin on the other side of the family; and very nearly a year after my last grandparent passed. Those are not the only deaths among family and friends. Plus, this year has also inflicted ongoing mortal fears as society, to some degree, shut down, as close family members caught COVID (but recovered), and as good friends received terminal diagnoses (where recovery seems unlikely and yet they fight on). Through it all, it is easy to feel guilty about one’s own feelings of grief and fear when “others have it so much worse.” In nearly every case, that will be true because there will be those who suffer worse, and yet that does not change the individual’s personal experience and confrontation with mortality. We mourn for lost human lives, for our own everyday lives, and for important aspects of the normal grieving process itself. To discuss how the pandemic and lockdown have affected both grief and grief counseling , four grief and loss counselors joined me to share their own thoughts and… Read full this story
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