Understanding Ambiguous Grief: The Three Parts and How to Help
Exploring the concept of ambiguous grief, this presentation by Amy Flaherty discusses the three components of grief - loss, longing, and feeling lost. It delves into what ambiguous loss can look like in various life events and offers insights on how to support clients dealing with this type of grief.
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THE POWER OF AMBIGUOUS GRIEF By Amy Flaherty, LPE-I, RPT, ICST-P
LETS TALK ABOUT THE THREE PARTS OF GRIEF 1. Loss Felt when something we knew, we counted on, we believed in, is gone. There s a hole we don t know what to do with it how to fill it up or move around it. But if we don t give it our time and attention, it will continue to grow.
LETS TALK ABOUT THE THREE PARTS OF GRIEF 2. Longing Not conscious wanting, it s an involuntary yearning for wholeness, for understanding, for meaning, and for the opportunity to regain or even simply touch what we ve lost.
LETS TALK ABOUT THE THREE PARTS OF GRIEF 3. Feeling Lost Includes feeling physically, emotionally, and spiritually lost. You have to reorient yourself to a new environment or identity. We are always letting go of things. While sometimes it is with the intention to create space for new things, there can still be grief for what we ve let go.
WHAT CAN AMBIGUOUS LOSS LOOK LIKE? - Life events good or bad - Career change - Divorce - Birth of a child - Change in relationship with loved one - Diagnoses (mental or physical) - Move - Martial problems - Child going away to college - Child marriage or going away to college - Change in identity - Change in future options - Death of a pet
HOW YOU CAN HELP 1. Comfort in not knowing or ambiguity 2. Community 3. Mindfulness and storytelling 4. Valdiation 5. Self-care; rest; humor 6. Letting go ease with imperfection 7. Mastery of controllable 8. Meaning-making; celebrating what is
