June 17 2019
Monday, June 17, 2019
At an education and support group I co-facilitated, we asked the participants to think about who had been the most supportive companions on their grief journeys. The answers came in many forms – family members, friends, mental health professionals, etc. The common thread with all of the named companions was they had experienced great loss themselves. Sarah Kerr, Ph.D., has called grief an initiation – it takes us from one place and leaves us in another totally changed. And having been transformed, we are then sometimes better equipped to companion others.
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