"Coping
With Loss During the Holidays" A Special Weekly Support Group For Those Who Are Experiencing Holiday Grief |
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It’s the first time you’ll be without your husband, wife or special loved one during the holidays. How do you cope with this loss? In the past, you looked forward to shopping, cooking, getting together with friends and a break in your schedule. Today you feel numb, lost, overwhelmed and grief stricken. Life feels so unfair and it’s difficult to see people happily going about their routines while you feel like you are literally drowning in sorrow. You keep going back to the grief and loss. All you really want to do is crawl into bed and hibernate until January. But still you have obligations and events that you feel like you need to attend. Or, you might have absolutely nothing to do and no one to see. Your friends and acquaintances are out of town or busy. |
Even if they are here, you don’t want to burden them with your feelings of grief and loss. Besides, you feel too tired and unmotivated to do anything. What you really want to do is crawl into bed, pull up the covers and hibernate until January.
Grievers universally use isolation as a coping method. It won’t work. It’s way more healing and to come together and find support with others who can share your feelings and lend support during this period of grief. A support group offers members the opportunity to share, understand the grieving process, and be with others who are going through similar experiences. A major focus will be on grief recovery – two words that are rarely spoken together.
I am dedicated to
helping those who suffer loss. I am a licensed Marriage, Family Therapist
with a specialty in Grief Recovery TM.
This special focus grief group will run for five weeks in December beginning
Thursday, December 8 and ending January 5th. The group will meet from
4:30-6 PM in Encino. Ventura Blvd location with plenty of parking. Donation
for each group is $25.00. You do not need to commit to coming every week
but the more you attend, the better you’ll feel.
Please call for your free pre-screening interview. Leave your name, phone number and best times to reach you and I will personally call you back.
Thank you for contacting
me. And, remember, I care.
- Jackie Castro, MA, MFT
818-377-4484
therapywithcare.com
therapywithcare@yahoo.com