Coaching practices for Common Humanity After a Loss

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

• Nobody in my life gets this kind of loss, and I’m starting to ache for even one person who’s been through the exact same thing and wouldn’t need me to explain why it matters.
• Everyone keeps telling me to move on and get over the loss, but the grief is huge and it won’t go
• Everyone’s gone quiet about them, like saying their name would upset me, so I never get to hear other people’s memories
• Right now, in this exact ache, I feel cut off from everyone
• It’s been long enough that I can quietly admit something in me has shifted since they died

Practices that may help

1. Find a community that recognises your specific loss
   Seek out people who have experienced the same type of loss — online or in person.
   Disenfranchised Grief, Made Practical
2. 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
3. Common Humanity, Made Practical
   Common humanity — one of the three components of Kristin Neff's self-compassion framework — is the recognition that suffering, failure, and inadequacy are universal human experiences, not personal defects. Activating this awareness interrupts shame's isolating story and reduces its intensity. It has observational support as a component of the self-compassion construct and is taught across evidence-based programs including MSC.
4. 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
5. Shared condition meditation
   Sit briefly with the awareness that right now, thousands of people are feeling exactly what you feel.
   Common Humanity, Made Practical
6. 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
7. Finish the sentence: "Others also feel this when..."
   Complete a specific bridge between your pain and others' shared experience.
   Common Humanity, Made Practical
8. Connect to common humanity in moments of failure
   When you fail or suffer, remind yourself that this is a shared human experience — not your personal deficit.
   Self-Worth vs. Self-Esteem
9. Expand tonglen to include all beings who share this suffering
   Whatever you are suffering, countless others feel it too — breathe in the shared pain, breathe out shared relief.
   Tonglen: The Tibetan Practice of Taking and Sending
10. Construct a coherent narrative of the loss
    Tell the full story of the loss — who the person was, what happened, and what life is now.
    Worden’s Tasks of Mourning, Made Practical

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