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Dr. Leeat Granek on Coping with Grief
posted by Guest Blogger on January 26, 2012
With all of this talk in the media about whether or not grief is a mental disorder, we seemed to have missed the boat about what's most important when it comes to coping with our losses.
In this short video I did for Open to Hope Foundation, I talk about what I've learned about grief from both my own personal experience with loss and my academic research and work in this area.
The most important thing to remember is also the most simple—there's no right or wrong way to grieve. Part of the issue with grieving today is the lack of knowledge around ritual, and a discomfort we have around death, loss, and grief.
In the video, I provide simple ways in which you can begin to face some of your discomfort around loss and cope with your own pain, and in the process, the pain of others.
If you'd like to hear or read more, please feel free to have a look at some of my work posted online. Of particular interest is the series of articles on Slate I co-wrote with Meghan O'Rourke where nearly 8,000 people told us about their experiences of grief. Indeed, as we noted in our report, people's experiences of grief were quite varied. Have a look for yourself and tell me what you think!
Leeat Granek, PhD, is a critical health psychologist and researcher at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada, working in the area of psycho-oncology and grief and loss. Her work has been cited widely in mainstream and academic outlets.
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