Coaching practices for The Wheel of Life After a Loss

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

• They handled the money, or the cooking, or were just the person I leaned on
• On any given day my read on how my life is going swings wildly with my mood, and I can’t tell whether things are actually getting better or worse over time or I’m just reacting to today
• I want their life to keep meaning something in the world, not just end
• Something I built my life around has ended
• My memories of them and of how it happened come at me in scattered, jagged pieces with no order to them, and I keep replaying the end on a loop

Practices that may help

1. The Wheel of Life, Made Practical
   The Wheel of Life is a coaching tool that maps satisfaction across multiple life domains (career, health, relationships, finances, and others) as a visual "wheel" to show where life is well-rounded and where it is flat. It is widely used in coaching but lacks independent clinical trial evidence; its value is as a structured self-awareness and conversation-starter tool rather than a therapeutic intervention.
2. 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
3. Track your wheel scores over time to see trajectory, not just snapshots
   A single wheel is a photograph; repeated wheels are a film — trajectory matters more than today’s score.
   The Wheel of Life, Made Practical
4. 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
5. Reframing loss as transformation
   When something ends or is lost, practise asking what it is becoming rather than only mourning what it was.
   Zhuangzi and the Practice of Perspective Shift
6. 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
7. Use the wheel as a relationship check-in, not just a solo exercise
   Sharing your wheel with a partner, coach, or trusted friend turns a self-assessment into a conversation and a commitment.
   The Wheel of Life, Made Practical
8. 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
9. Reconstruct your identity post-loss
   Actively develop the new self that emerges when a core relationship or role is gone.
   Meaning Reconstruction in Grief, Made Practical
10. 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

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