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Worden Tasks Model: A Framework for Active Grieving

Worden's framework offers four active tasks for mourning: accepting reality, feeling and processing pain, adjusting to their absence, and finding enduring ways to remember them while moving forward. Rather than waiting for grief to pass, these tasks ask you to do specific psychological work, which transforms mourning from something that happens to you into something you actively complete.

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The Worden Tasks Model reframes grief not as a set of passive stages to endure but as four active tasks a mourner works through: accepting the reality of the loss, processing the pain, adjusting to a world without the person, and finding a way to maintain an enduring connection while moving forward.

AI writing companions are well suited to support each of these tasks by generating targeted prompts, helping you articulate resistance or avoidance, and creating structured reflection exercises that move you forward without rushing the process.

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