Everyone suffers from loss and grief, whether that be from the death of a loved one, including pets, the loss of a job, the breakup of a relationship, the change in lifestyle and future. Loss and grief can be quite debilitating and there is no specific timeline for it. I hold space for clients to allow expression of their pain and suffering with the hopes of helping them to tolerate emotional disturbance and create meaning from the loss and grief going forward whilst simultaneously validating their experience of the loss and accompanying grief.
It’s a natural emotional response to losing someone or something that was in your life that you love. It can also follow serious illness, quality of life, transitions in life, moving jobs, countries, divorce, separation etc.
Grief can result from many types of losses, and everyone's grief is different. I won't preach the 5 stages of grief to you. My job is to help you navigate your own grief in your own way.
We may each have our personal experience of loss though there are many similarities to how we deal with this. As time progresses you will need to balance your experience of grief more with things necessary to continue living your life.