Navigating the complex journey of grief

GRIEF is an overwhelming emotion, often aptly described as the struggle of "not knowing what to do with the love".

- DR NAZIA IRAM OSMAN

We yearn to speak to, hold, or share moments with them, but the absence feels frustrating.

We miss them but are, at some level, upset that they have left us. We understand that they loved us, but we still feel abandoned.

This profound sense of loss and the battle of the heart and the head can leave us unsure of how to move forward and how to redirect that love when the person we cherish is no longer within reach. Just because this is inevitable and universal, doesn’t make it any easier.

Therapy often entails expressing these confusing feelings and creating some sense of certainty or predictability by psycho-educating the client on the stages of grief.

Psychiatrist Elisabeth Ktibler-Ross famously outlined the five stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depres-sion, and acceptance. However, these stages are not a rigid sequence but rather a fluid process that individuals move through in their own time and way.