Emotional Strengthening

Grief is the normal and natural emotional response to loss, but most of the information we’ve learned about dealing with loss is intellectual. Although our Grief Support Programs involve some educational elements, effective Grief Recovery must deal with your broken heart, which requires emotional support instead of intellectual explanations.

While children instinctively know how to grieve normally and naturally, they are often not given the space to talk openly and honestly with the adults around them and process through their emotions as they come up. This is largely due to the sad but true fact that parents and caregivers although well intended are not educated themselves on what healthy grieving is. For example, in an effort to help or shield children from grief, they try to “be strong” for their children rather than being emotionally honest. Since children learn and model their behavior by what they see around them, they begin to stuff their feelings rather than process them in a healthy way.