With her usual warmth and wisdom, bestselling psychotherapist Julia Samuel explores the family: what we inherit and how we can change
Relationships fundamentally influence our health and happiness -- and family is the only relationship that we cannot leave, however much we might like to. But we think too narrowly about the impact of our families on our lives.
If change is the natural order of things, why do so many people struggle with the milestones of life – from first jobs and first loves to children leaving home and retirement?
Grief Works is a compassionate guide that will support, inform and engage anyone who is grieving, from the ‘expected’ death of a parent to the sudden and unexpected death of a small child. It also provides clear advice for those seeking to comfort the bereaved.
These basic guidelines are ways to think about what helps us, at such a difficult time in our life. Grief, whether from death or a living loss, requires the commitment, of regularly doing things that help us, physically and emotionally.
In this pillar I explain the importance of both living relationships and the continuing relationship with the person who has died. Our relationship with others is key to a good and happy life. And when someone significant in our life dies, the level of our loss will be equal to the quality of that relationship and how much we loved the person who died.
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As our relationship with the world and others is changed by grief, so does our relationship with ourself change.
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We all need to find ways of expressing our grief and loss. It is a uniquely individual process to find what works for us personally.
Read MoreHere you can find events that I am presenting or discussing ‘Grief Works.’ Do please come and join me at them.