There are so many kinds of losses that people are dealing with. Friends, family, co-workers,... it's all around us! People are heroes in how they live their lives... working full time jobs, juggling kids, maintaining marriages and relationships, taking care of extended family members, paying their bills, keeping up with current events, cleaning their homes, entertaining, visiting sick family and friends in the hospital, supporting friends, volunteering, running the kids here and there, putting kids through University, moving for jobs, working extra hours to get ahead at work, repairs and maintenance around the house, donating to charity, getting involved in church, sitting on boards for worthy causes, taking courses to develop themselves, learning new skills, mentoring co-workers, taking up hobbies, all while they are dealing with bigger things than we can ever imagine.
People who are caregivers for their grandparents compromising their own spare time and sacrificing some of their own dreams to care for someone they love. And dealing with the grief of loosing who their grandparent once was for them, and grieving their loss of freedom from their life while they have been caregiver and realizing their life doesn't look like they thought it would and grieving the should'da, could'da, would'da's
The parents who are living their lives while advocating for their children with autism. Integrating them into the school system, arranging for additional support to provide then with every opportunity available to them. Or parents dealing with many different mental illness with their children and some who are the voice for their adult children that cannot advocate for themselves. Along with the worry of how the adult child will cope and how they will be cared for once the parent dies. And they could also be grieving the child they once had before the child was diagnosed or grieving what could have been without the mental illness.
The woman entering a romantic relationship while grieving the past relationship and not wanting to carry what didn't work in the past relationship into the new one.
Having a substansial income one year and the next year shopping for a basement apartment wondering how you will ever get back on top of your game.
Loosing your vitality due to a stroke and not having the same energy to do all the things you were once able to do. Knowing that youthful feeling is not coming back and grieving who you knew yourself to be just months before.
Having your heart set on going to University and being rejected. Grieving the plans you had for yourself and feeling like the wind has been knocked out of your sails and your life is off the rails from where you thought you were headed.
Going through a divorce that you don't want because when you said "I do" you really meant for life and grieving that sacred promise you made and not wanting to be alright with it
Changing careers and letting go of who you were in a particular role and grieving the status that the job gave you and the security the income provided.
People are out there dealing with this and so much more....I could write for hours the things people are dealing with in regards to loss. AND I know there is healing for ALL OF IT!!!!
I have been working with some incredible people who are like sailboats that have been sailing in one particular direction and by working with me through their grief process, have adjusted their sails and they are saying "This isn't me" and "I don't recognize myself".. It's like night and day!! The shifts that are occurring are like they were sailing in one direction and now they are sailing in a completely different direction that is bringing them new happiness and joy!!
HEALING IS REDISCOVERING THE BEAUTY OF LIFE
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