• Grief is often thought of as a process that includes many emtions, rather than a singular emotion.

• A cetral process in grieving is the attempt to reaffirm or reconstruct a world of meaning that has been challeneged by loss.

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• Brene Brown Atlas of the Heart p. 110

The Center for Complicated Grief

Acute Grief-occurs in the initial period after a loss. It almost always includes strong feelings of yearning, longing, and sadness along with anxiety, bitterness, anger, remorse, guilt, and/or shame. Thoughts are ostly focused on the person who died and it can be difficult to concentrate on antyhing else. acute grief dominates a person's life.

Integrated grief is the result of adamption ot the loss. When a person adapts to a losss grief is not over. Instead, thoughts, feelings, and behaviors related to their loss are integrated in ways that allow them to remember and honor the eprson who died. Grief finds a place in their life.

Complicated Grief- occurs when something interferees with adaptation. When this happens, acute grief can persist for very long periods of time. A person with complicated grief feels intense emotional pain. They can't stop feeling that their lvoed one might somehow reaaprear and they don't see a pathway forward. A future wihtou ttheir loved one seems forever dismal and unappealing... Grief dominates their thoughts and feelings with no respite in sight. Relationships with family and friends flounder. Life can seem purposeless, as if nothing matters with out their lvoed one. Others begin to feel frustrated, helpless, and idscouraged. Even professionals may be uncertain about how to help. People oftne thing this is depression but complicated grief and depression are not the same thing.

Based on the reswerch of Tashel Bordere

Discenframchised Grief is a less studnied form of grief: giref that is not onpenly acknowledged or publiccly supported through mourning practices or rituals because the experience is not valued or counted (by others) as a loss. The grief can also be invisible or hard to see by others. Examples of disenfranchised grief include loss oa a partner or parent due to divorce, loss of an unborn child and/or infertility, the multitude of losses experienced by a survivoor of secual assuault, and loss of a loved one to suicide. As an illustrative example of disenfranchised grief, Tashel Boredere explains that sexual assault survivors suffer from nemerous losses, many of which are invisible to others. Some of these losses include loss ofone's prior worldview, loss of trust, loss of self-identify and self-esteem, loss of freedom and independence., loss of a sense of sefty and security, and loss of sexual interest.

Grief causes three foundational elements loss, longing, and feeling lost.

Brene Brown Atlas of the Heart p. 108

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