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Losing a loved one can be the most difficult time in your life.

Emotions are often surprising in their strength or mildness. Grief often breaks a person completely from the inside out. Grieving is hard work, you can get worn out, and feel battered.

Grief & Loss

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Grieving is hard

Grief can take a lot longer to work through than most people realize. Grief has no timeline.

Oak Tree Counseling and Wellness will never judge you for when you choose to come in or the type of loss, it can be immediately after a loss, within the year, within five years or even after decades.

It is unfortunate how much people dismiss the life changing impact of grief.

People around you may think it’s helpful for you to not talk or cry or focus on your loss but actually, this is just what people need to do. The goal is to not stay stuck, to move through it—and this is part of the process. Grief doesn’t get better by ignoring it and trying to ‘get over it.’

You never get over the loss of someone you love deeply, that is not the goal of grief counseling, to forget the person, but you can learn to live with it, and you can feel good again.

We use a holistic approach at Oak Tree Counseling and Wellness.

We are honored to work with individuals who need the space to find or rediscover their voice after loss.

There’s no “right” way to grieve. There’s only what’s true for you.

“I don’t know who I am without this.”

“Life just feels dull now.”

“This isn’t how I expected grief to feel.”

“Everyone else has moved on and I haven’t.”

When life is changed by loss, lots of things can come up…more than just sadness.

Grief is a highly individual experience. If you’re wondering what you’re feeling or experiencing is “normal,” please know that there is no right or wrong way to go about this.

Sometimes it shows up like anger or irritability: you used to be a patient, conscientious person and now feel like you don’t recognize yourself. Other times, you feel the impacts in your ability to connect to others: you feel like you can’t relate to people any more, or experience resentment watching others go on with daily life when yours has been forever changed.

Grief can also look like:

Depression or severe sadness
Questioning meaning or purpose
Feeling like you’re just “going through the motions”
Isolating from others

Discuss your Loss

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