Coaching practices for Individual Differences Grief

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

• I deal with my grief by doing and fixing rather than weeping, and everyone keeps treating that as cold or in denial
• 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
• I keep telling myself I shouldn’t be this wrecked when other people have lost so much more
• It’s been a few months and everyone around me clearly expects me to be over it by now, and I’ve half-swallowed that timeline myself

Practices that may help

1. Identify your natural grieving style and adjust for it
   Know whether you tend toward more loss or more restoration orientation — and compensate accordingly.
   The Dual Process Model of Grief, Made Practical
2. 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
3. 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
4. Validate your own grief without waiting for external permission
   Give yourself the recognition that society has withheld — your loss is real because it matters to you.
   Disenfranchised Grief, Made Practical
5. Identify how cultural norms shape your grief
   Examine whether cultural scripts about how long and how much to grieve are shaping your experience.
   The Dual Process Model of Grief, Made Practical
6. 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
7. 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
8. Create a deliberate grief window
   Schedule bounded time to grieve, protecting both the grief process and the rest of life.
   Worden’s Tasks of Mourning, Made Practical
9. Disenfranchised Grief, Made Practical
   Disenfranchised grief, named by Kenneth Doka, refers to grief for losses that are not socially acknowledged, publicly mourned, or openly supported — the death of a pet, an ex-partner, a miscarriage, an estranged parent, or any relationship the community does not sanction. Because social support is a major resource for grief, its absence compounds the loss and can complicate the grieving process significantly.
10. Practice speaking about the loss to people outside your immediate circle
    Gradually widen the circle of people who know about the loss and can offer recognition.
    Disenfranchised Grief, Made Practical

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