Wedge Diana C MS Mft

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I have found that traveling to your home enhances your comfort with the therapeutic process. I am willing to travel any reasonable distance.

A sliding fee scale is maintained. I do some insurance and victim of crime clients.

I have experience with all ages, ethnic diversity, and varied family units.

In 2005, I completed training with the Grief Recovery Institute. It was a personally beneficial experience, resolving issues I had always understood, but which continued to reoccur. At my fathers funeral some time later, I was thankful that the family issues had been resolved within myself.

During the training, I was impressed with the process, realizing that anger management, past molestation issues, dysfunctional family dynamics, the health loss issues, and many more presenting problems, could all have been resolved with the GRIEF RECOVERY process.

Simply defined, grief is the normal and natural reaction to significant emotional loss of any kind. While we never compare losses, a list would include death and divorce as obvious painful losses. Our list also includes many others: retirement, moving, pet loss, financial and health issues, among them.

The range of emotions associated with grief are as varied as there are people and personalities. There is no list of feelings that would adequately describe one persons emotions, much less an entire society.

Grief is individual and unique. As every relationship is unique, so are the feelings, and thoughts each person will have about the relationship that has been altered by death, divorce or for other reasons.

While grief is normal and natural, most of the information passed on within our society about dealing with grief is not normal, natural, or helpful. Grief is the emotional response to loss, but most of the information we have learned about dealing with loss is intellectual.

The majority of incorrect ideas about dealing with loss can be summed up in six myths which are so common that nearly everyone recognizes them. Most people have never questioned whether or not they are valid. The misinformation is best described in the following:

Just looking at the myth that time heals creates the idea that a person just has to wait and they will feel better. We have known people who had waited 10, 20, 30, 40 years, and still didnt feel better. And, we know that they would tell you that not only had time not healed them, but that is has compounded the pain. The other five myths carry equally unhelpful messages.

Recovery from the loss is accomplished by discovering and completing all of the undelivered communications that accrue in relationships. We are all advised to Let Go, and Move On, after losses of all kinds. Most of us would do that if we knew how.

Completion of pain caused by loss is what allows us to Let Go and Move On. It is almost impossible to Move On without first taking a series of actions that lead to completion.

Before taking the actions to complete, it is important to look and often dismiss some of the ideas for myths that we have tried to use with loss, but are not working.

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Grief is Normal and Natural but many of the ideas we have been taught about dealing with grief are not helpful.

If you have experienced one or more losses, and you wish to move beyond the pain, this program offers you the probability of a richer and more rewarding life.