Grief Counseling in Orlando

Grief is badly served by the language around it. People are told they are going through stages, that time heals, and that after a year they should be somewhere in particular. None of that is a description of how it actually goes.

It does not arrive in order

The stages people quote were never a schedule. Grief comes in waves that do not announce themselves, and a bad Tuesday eight months in is not a relapse or a failure. It is simply what the thing is.

The most common reason people come to us is not that they are not coping. It is that everybody around them has moved on and they have not, and they have started to think that means something is wrong with them.

Loss that nobody sends a card for

A death is not the only thing that produces grief, and some losses are harder precisely because they are not recognised as losses.

The end of a marriage. A pregnancy that did not continue. A job or a career that formed most of who you were. A diagnosis that closes off a future you had assumed. A parent who is still alive and no longer knows you. In each of those, people grieve without permission to call it grief, which makes it lonelier than a bereavement.

When it is not moving at all

Sometimes grief stops being grief and becomes something that has taken over the whole of daily life, months on, with no let up at all. That is worth naming rather than waiting out, and it is treatable.

What the work is actually like

It is not a process of getting over anybody. It is closer to finding out what carrying this looks like when it is not taking everything you have. People often expect to be talked out of the loss and are relieved to find that is not what happens.

Seeing us from Orlando

The office is on Conroy Windermere Road, west of Orlando, and we see people in person there or across Florida by video. Grief is one of the things people most often prefer to do from home, and that is a perfectly good way to do it.

Starting

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Feel Happy Counseling and Coaching
9100 Conroy Windermere Road, Suite 200, Windermere, FL 34786
(407) 476-9626