Coaching practices for Atomic Habits After a Loss

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• Since they died, the whole ground I stood on is gone
• I can’t bring myself to get rid of a single thing of theirs
• It’s been long enough that I can quietly admit something in me has shifted since they died
• I keep my head down and stay busy so I never actually feel the loss, and now it ambushes me at random and won’t metabolize
• They handled the money, or the cooking, or were just the person I leaned on

Practices that may help

1. Map the assumptive world the loss disrupted
   Identify which of your core beliefs about life, self, and the future the loss has challenged.
   Meaning Reconstruction in Grief, Made Practical
2. Use symbolic objects as tangible continuing bonds
   Keep meaningful objects that represent the person and use them consciously, not compulsively.
   Continuing Bonds in Grief, Made Practical
3. Look honestly for what has grown or changed for the better
   Without minimising the loss, notice any growth, change, or perspective that has emerged from it.
   Meaning Reconstruction in Grief, Made Practical
4. Deliberately engage loss-oriented work
   Set aside dedicated time to directly face the grief — the emotions, the absence, the meaning of the loss.
   The Dual Process Model of Grief, Made Practical
5. Task 3: Adjust to a world without the person
   Actively develop new skills, roles, and identity elements to navigate the changed life.
   Worden’s Tasks of Mourning, Made Practical
6. Task 1: Accept the full reality of the loss
   Move from intellectual acknowledgement to full emotional acceptance that the person is gone.
   Worden’s Tasks of Mourning, Made Practical
7. Use specific memories as resources for meaning
   Identify particular memories that distil what mattered most about the relationship.
   Meaning Reconstruction in Grief, Made Practical
8. Retell the story of the death and its aftermath
   Construct a coherent, detailed narrative of the loss — including your experience before, during, and after.
   Meaning Reconstruction in Grief, Made Practical
9. Treating grief as a form of gratitude
   When something ends and you feel grief, recognise that the grief is proportional to the love — and let it be both.
   Mono no Aware: The Pathos of Things
10. Share the continuing bond in community
    Talk about the person with others who knew and loved them, keeping the relationship alive in shared memory.
    Continuing Bonds in Grief, Made Practical

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