Periagoge
Scenario

When professional grief categories feel like pathologizing love

My therapist says I have complicated grief but I think this is just what love looks like when the person you love is dead and cannot love you back.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Clinical frameworks can minimize the profound rationality of refusing to accept devastating loss.

Your guide for this
Mira
Mira works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Complicated grief — prolonged grief disorder?”

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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