Dr. Alan Wolfelt discusses healing in Ten Touchstones. Touchstone One: Open to the presence of your loss. To heal in grief is to become whole again, to integrate your grief into your self and to learn to continue your changed life with fullness and meaning. Experiencing a new and changed "wholeness" requires that you engage in the work of mourning. Healing is a holistic concept that embraces the physical, emotional, cognitive, social and spiritual realms.
To suppress the grief, the pain is to condemn oneself to a living death. Living fully means feeling fully; it means being completely one with what you are experiencing and not holding it at arm's length. Philip Kapleau
Our next grief groups will begin in September. Groups are $15/group session ($95 for 6-week group) and we will be offering groups for adults, teens and children. Contact Melanie Holt, LAPC, 801.718.9840 or Becky Andrews, LPC, FT, for more information.
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