Coaching practices for Daring Greatly After a Loss

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

  • I want their life to keep meaning something in the world, not just end
  • It’s been long enough that I can quietly admit something in me has shifted since they died
  • When something I love gets taken away I’m always blindsided, like I assumed it would last forever
  • I’m staring down something hard now and I feel like I have no idea if I can handle it
  • Since I nearly lost it all, the small ordinary things I used to walk right past

Practices that may help

  1. Daring Greatly, Made Practical
    Brené Brown’s Daring Greatly argues that vulnerability — showing up without guarantees — is the birthplace of courage, connection, and creativity, not a weakness to hide. The ideas come from qualitative, grounded-theory research on thousands of interviews rather than controlled trials, so treat them as well-grounded patterns from lived experience rather than experimentally proven effects.
  2. Carry forward the person’s legacy in your own life
    Identify values, projects, or commitments the person cared about and carry them forward yourself.
    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. Premeditate adversity (the Stoic root)
    Briefly and regularly rehearse loss and difficulty in advance, before any specific decision.
    Fear-Setting, Made Practical
  5. Identify the strengths the hardship revealed
    Name capacities you discovered in yourself only because the situation demanded them.
    Benefit-Finding: Locating Meaning and Growth in Adversity
  6. Domain 5 — Renewed appreciation of life
    Adversity can sharpen attention to small goods and reorder what you treat as important.
    Post-Traumatic Growth, Made Practical
  7. Name the loss the adaptive challenge requires
    Explicitly acknowledge what people must give up — not just what they will gain.
    Adaptive Leadership, Made Practical
  8. Choose vulnerability on purpose
    Show up and let yourself be seen when there is no guarantee of the outcome.
    Daring Greatly, Made Practical
  9. Plan how to repair each worst case
    If the worst case happened anyway, write how you’d get back to where you are now.
    Fear-Setting, Made Practical
  10. Practice wholehearted living
    Cultivate the sense of worthiness that lets you engage life from "I am enough."
    Daring Greatly, Made Practical

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