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When grief counseling feels like emotional productivity culture

My grief counselor keeps pushing me to 'process' and 'work through' my mom's death but sometimes I just want to sit with missing her without having to fix it.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The therapeutic impulse to heal can become another form of violence against the natural rhythms of love and loss.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Grief groups and communities?”

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