Living with Grief: Understanding Ambiguous Loss

Photo courtesy of ICRC Today is World Mental Health Day  “You will not ‘get over’ the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but you will never be the same. Nor should you be the same, nor would you want to.” (Elizabeth Kübler-Ross & David Kessler). The literature on grief and loss is extensive and identifies different types of grief, ranging from normal grief, anticipatory grief (the impending loss of a loved one), complicated grief (more…

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