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Scenario

When professional training interferes with personal grief processing

My partner and I are both therapists and we lost our colleague in a suicide last month, but we keep falling into clinical language when we talk about it together instead of just being two people who are sad. We can't seem to turn off our professional selves even with each other and it's keeping us from really grieving together.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Sometimes expertise becomes a barrier to authentic feeling, even in our most intimate relationships.

Your guide for this
Mira
Mira works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with What not to say to a grieving person?”

Peri

Peri can explain why this happens, help you decide if this is the right situation for you, and point toward the right journey or coach.

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