"Want to Understand Your Grief?"
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Welcome, Hospice Savannah Families and Friends
As you cope with significant loss and grief, we invite you to take time out to tune into your needs. Find what speaks to you in this moment. Bookmark this page and come back another time, with a different need.
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The information contained in this online format is educational and supportive in nature. It is not meant to replace one-on-one grief support or group counseling available to you through our Full Circle bereavement counselors. Simply call
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to receive complimentary, confidential assistance.
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descriptions of these videos, for your ongoing reference. Make notes for yourself. Talk about these with your grief counselor or support group. Use these for comfort, hope, and healing.
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WHAT IS GRIEF?
Loss hits us in many ways. This loss--likely--is connected with other losses. Simply naming them can help you validate your grief experiences from the past, and understand your uniquely personal experience of this loss, at this time.
Your grief is deeply personal. You're sure to be experiencing it in many ways: anticipatory grief, sudden, disenfranchised (or discounted), and others. Explore these to understand your personal journey better: past, present, and ahead.
HOPE FOR COPING
Does grief really end with "acceptance"? Researchers have found that grief begins with accepting a bit of reality. And, it's less "stages" and more of an ongoing process. Check it out.
Instead of "stages" you achieve, grief is more of a going back forth between moments of "loss" and "restoration." Do you know, the words “mourning” and “morning” come from the same root word? How can this apply to you?
CARE FOR YOUR WHOLE SELF
Grief can deplete your physical health and well-being. You've given your care to your loved one. It's time to take care of you. See how grief might be affecting you, and learn what you can do.
Are your emotions on a roller coaster? Do you find yourself not thinking clearly? Explore normal emotional and mental reactions to grief, with things you can do to get through everyday life, better.
For others, life has moved on. For you, realities of your loss are settling in. You might feel out of place with friends or social groups. You might be leaning into your spiritual beliefs--or--you might be questioning them. Here's guidance for finding your way.
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BEING IN AND MOVING THROUGH MOURNING
In coping with grief, do you prefer to feel it and talk about it to others--or--do you prefer to be more logical and do something with it? Learn about "intuitive" and "instrumental" styles of grieving. What's your style?
Throughout the year, you check the weather to know how to prepare for the day. With grief, we can do much the same. Explore ways that seasonal and daily "weather" are much like seasonal and daily "grief."
Likely, you have many physical "things" left by your family member to deal with. Memories are everywhere! Do you scrap ‘em? Store ‘em? Or "stitch" ‘em together, making a new tapestry / quilt for life ahead?
This
"Want to Understand Your Grief?"
video library is provided to families served by Hospice Savannah, in loving memory of Jake and Jane Berger, James Carswell Milligan, and Lois Robbins Milligan Lee. All are buried at Bonaventure Cemetery. They are the parents and maternal grandparents of Joy Berger, author of this video library.
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