Coaching practices for Coping with Loss and Trauma
Describe almost anything you are working through and IX Coach finds the practices whose real-world fit is closest. For Coping with Loss and Trauma, these are the strongest matches in the current practice library.
Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- It’s been long enough that I can quietly admit something in me has shifted since they died
- The day they died still plays in my head in jagged pieces
- I’ve been keeping it together by staying busy and not letting myself fall apart, but the grief I keep shoving down isn’t shrinking
- People keep telling me everything happens for a reason and that I’ll come out of this stronger, and underneath my grief it makes me feel like I’m failing at healing because I haven’t turned my pain into some neat lesson yet.
- 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
Practices that may help
- 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 - 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 - Task 2: Work through the pain of grief
Allow and process the emotional and physical pain of loss rather than bypassing it.
Worden’s Tasks of Mourning, Made Practical - Understand what PTG is — and is not
Growth from struggling with trauma is real, but it is not guaranteed, not required, and not a silver lining.
Post-Traumatic Growth, Made Practical - 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 - Domain 2 — New possibilities
When an old path is closed off, genuinely new directions and priorities can open.
Post-Traumatic Growth, Made Practical - Domain 4 — Spiritual or existential change
Confronting limits and mortality can deepen or reshape your sense of meaning and the sacred.
Post-Traumatic Growth, Made Practical - Examine stuck points across the five disrupted domains
CPT organizes trauma-disrupted beliefs into five domains — Safety, Trust, Power, Esteem, Intimacy — to ensure none are missed.
Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT): Unsticking the Meanings That Maintain PTSD - 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 - Debrief after each stressful encounter
Within 24 hours of a challenging event, review what you did, what worked, and what you will adjust.
Stress Inoculation Training
Related concerns
- How To Cope With Grief Trauma Loss And Crisis
Without minimising the loss, notice any growth, change, or perspective that has emerged from it.
Look honestly for what has grown or changed for the better
- Post Traumatic Growth After A Loss
Without minimising the loss, notice any growth, change, or perspective that has emerged from it.
- Post Traumatic Growth As A Caregiver
Growth from struggling with trauma is real, but it is not guaranteed, not required, and not a silver lining.
Understand what PTG is — and is not
- Post Traumatic Growth At Work
Post-traumatic growth, a construct developed by researchers Tedeschi and Calhoun, refers to positive psychological change that some people experience in the struggle with major adversity, across five domains. It is a real, measured phenomenon — but it is not guaranteed, it is not the goal of suffering, and it never cancels the pain. Growth and distress frequently coexist.
- Post Traumatic Growth Domains
Post-traumatic growth, a construct developed by researchers Tedeschi and Calhoun, refers to positive psychological change that some people experience in the struggle with major adversity, across five domains. It is a real, measured phenomenon — but it is not guaranteed, it is not the goal of suffering, and it never cancels the pain. Growth and distress frequently coexist.
- Post Traumatic Growth Loss
Post-traumatic growth, a construct developed by researchers Tedeschi and Calhoun, refers to positive psychological change that some people experience in the struggle with major adversity, across five domains. It is a real, measured phenomenon — but it is not guaranteed, it is not the goal of suffering, and it never cancels the pain. Growth and distress frequently coexist.
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