Sentences with phrase «feelings of grief as»

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Having worked as a firefighter for over thirty years, having worked as a grief counselor for over five years, having experienced lots of pain, suffering and sorrow as a hypnotherapist, to allow those in grieve, to be able to share their feelings and emotions in a non-judgmental atmosphere is huge.

But as I stood where I last saw her alive, feeling again the grief, I remembered what Paul said about the afflictions we face in this life: «For our momentary light affliction is producing for us an absolutely incomparable eternal weight of glory» (2 Co. 4:17).

When the pain and anger of grief are allowed to take their course, they will eventually join with the gamut of other feelings of grief, including joy and hope as well as sorrow, to focus on the true enemy, death, and the true goal, life.

The growth counselor's function is to help such persons as they work through their resistance to bury a dead relationship; uncouple without infighting so as to avoid further hurt to each other and to their children; agree on a plan for the children that will be best for the children's mental health; work through the ambivalent feelings that usually accompany divorce — guilt, rage, release, resentment, failure, joy, loss — so that each person's infected grief wound can heal; discover what each contributed to the disintegration of their relationship; learn the relationship - building and love - nurturing skills which each will need either to enjoy creative singlehood or to establish a better marriage.

Good Grief - It's not that we take religion «SO personally», as you put it, it's just that nobody else seems interested in challenging religious beliefs seriously, something that many of us feel is absolutely necessary considering how much harm they can cause within society.

Viewing this process as stages of grief will help me not to feel so lost.

The group succeeded in reaching a feeling level, discussing such matters as their perceptions of each other, feelings about having children as this relates to marital intimacy, and the grief experience of one member.

Fishon, I also was thinking of Viktor Frankl (whose books have impacted me greatly) today as I was processing some of the differences between feeling and expressing grief and anguish as a part of choosing to turn from bitterness and trust God vs. choosing bitterness because I can't get past the reality that what happened was injust.

Or they may feel self - hatred for having contributed to the nurture of someone who, as they see it, arrogantly took his or her life — a prerogative of God alone: A survivor's grief may be so severe that it can become a cause of self - execution on the part of the bereaved.

She considers the nurses «compassionate and sensitive»; describes herself as «always controlled, cooperative, compliant, an excellent patient, automatically responsive to the needs and feeling of others,» who is «shocked» when her grief breaks through her «normally strong controls.»

I began writing about Scandinavian food in 2009 a couple of months after Grandma Agny passed away; the grief had struck me in ways deeper than I could have expected, and I found myself seeking out elements of our shared Norwegian heritage as a way to feel closer to her memory.

Because as active as my parenthood may be right now, I never want to forget how the waiting felt, how the grief wrapped itself around the brightness of the sun, the casual small talk of those not acutely grieving, the ache from the long haul of hope.

Unresolved feelings, such as grief related to a divorce or loss of a loved one can be the root of the problem.

It almost feels as if this simple act helps me to get to the root of my problems, and as each weed falls in my bucket, a small piece of that grief and frustration falls into the bucket as well.

Comments such as «you can try again» or «time is a healer» all spoken and meant with the very best of intentions can feel belittling and dismissive to the grief for the longed for baby that has died.

As i wait for the arrival of a baby conceived after the death of my first baby when he was a month old, i worry about being able to offer him / her a life not completely shadowed by sadness and grief... I hold on to the hope that the love i already feel for this tiny human growing in me will allow me to give him the full life he / she deserves.

One emotion is usually more «tolerable» for the child to experience, and this emotion serves as a barrier to feeling the others; i.e. high levels of anger or fear will prevent the child from feeling grief and shame.

As part of the healing process, the child needs to express her terror, rage, grief and shame, and have these feelings accepted and validated by her adoptive mother.

While most surrogates agree that they don't bond as intensely with their surrogate babies as they do with their own children, you may experience feelings of grief or loss following the birth of the baby.

I was no longer in a place of deep grief and detachment, but I continued to feel guilty as my challenging rainbow baby again took attention away from my daughter.

Feelings of loss, grief, rejection and shame as well as identity issues, intimacy problems and problems with the evolution of self - control are all identified as life - long issues for adoptees, natural parents and even for the people who adopt in Deborah N. Silverstein and Sharon Kaplan's «Lifelong Issues in Adoption» available on the internet.

You might feel guilt as well as grief, and you'll be dealing with the mandatory police investigation into cause of death.

A lot of your feelings of grief about this have to do with pressure we put on ourselves, and the HUGE SOCIETAL PRESSURE that's laid at our feet to breastfeed... and if you «fail» you're a «failure» as a mother in general for not doing what is «best.»

This surge of support can look and feel very different, such as stepping away from things that no longer serve you and an accompanying feeling of loss, grief, or disappointment.

If you have experienced grief or loss of someone or a part of yourself, give yourself permission to feel exactly as you need to.

Comparing my couple of IVF rounds with someone's eight rounds only left me feeling not good enough or like my grief wasn't as bad.

Comparing my two rounds of IVF with someone's eight left me feeling not good enough and like my grief wasn't as bad.

Resorting to these easy, cheap scares feels a way of accounting for a requirement the Spierig's weren't really interested in though, as Winchester is seemingly more inclined to explore how cruelty, grief, and loss can affect people in different ways and to varying degrees.

This is a remarkable, triumphant, and confident picture by Aster, who gives the film an almost meditative - like sensation, as you feel every space you're in, every emotion, every moment of grief.

When Margot is goaded into climbing that tree (suspected to be rotting, the tree doctor gives it a clean bill of health), which stands as sentinel between the childhoods better remembered and the present better forgotten, and finds herself stuck there with a bug crawling into her ear, there is, stark and indelible, the feeling that we've come somewhere in our process of grief — past vengeance, into despair, no looking back.

His film echoes with a deeply felt pain - a sense of anguish, often depicted as scenes of celebration clash with unexplained images of abject grief.

Attempting to stuff bullying, grief, disease, and mythology does little to give any of them weight, doubly so when the characters feel as shallow as they are and the actors feel this limp.

A retired engineer who sees grief as just another problem to solve, he's launched himself into the productive busywork of his golden years, buying a new pair of jeans and trying to sell the house that suddenly feels five times too big.

I posed this question because like many of you, I felt her grief as an adult for a parent to be unusual — and I lost my mother, then my husband and my father, in the space of four years, when I was perhaps just a bit older than Helen.

It is a family narrative of love and grief taken to the extreme contexts, but the characters are so fleshed out that one feels as if they know them, although they may find some of them irritating or difficult to understand at first.

It feels as if the overwhelming density of characters and circumstances is supposed to be a metaphor for the larger loss of life that pervades the novel, a sort of suffocation in grief.

The sight of her cheek, lips and chin — so intimately familiar to him, so much a part of life as he had known it — made him feel a sharp grief at the thought of losing her.

But then I felt that this intense focus on the training was part of her processing her grief and it gradually became more important and relate - able as the book went on.

If you or a family member has great difficulty in accepting your pet's death and can not resolve feelings of grief and sorrow, you may want to discuss those feelings with a person who is trained to understand the grieving process such as a grief counselor, clergyman, social worker, physician, or psychologist.

A. I think they're an amazing way of spreading awareness of the awful things that go on at puppy farms such as dogs being pulled by their tails, never leaving their compound, never going for walks, being constantly bred and the grief the mums must feel when their puppies are continually removed.

Debra Rosenman writes in the introduction of her soon to be released book, The Chimpanzee Chronicles: Spellbinding Stories From Behind The Bars, «Chimpanzee's are not playthings, actors, or science project, they are sentient, intelligent and emotionally complex beings, capable of feeling and expressing the same emotions as we do - sadness, grief, excitement, anger, depression, joy and love.»

As to the question of your cats» ability to feel grief, there is some dissension within the scientific community and trends vary regarding different breeds.

If you or your family and friends are feeling overwhelmed, the Cornell Feline Health Center offers a Pet Loss Support Hotline, as well as a list of other grief support hotlines for pet lovers.

The five stages, as outlined by the pioneer in Pet Loss Grief Counselling, Dr. Wallace Sife of the Association for Pet Loss and Bereavement, are not necessarily experienced sequentially, and at times, you can feel like you are on an emotional roller - coaster; one moment unable to accept your loss, and the next moment, crying uncontrollably over the death of your dear animal companion.

We have felt the pain of losing a beloved pet; the grief you feel is the same as if you had lost a human friend.

The loss of a pet can affect us much in the same way as losing a human companion in that we can feel the same grief reactions and our grieving process can be much the same.

My only hope is that Dark Souls 2 can deliver the same, tangible feeling of reward and although they've caused gamers a lot of grief since Dark Souls launched, I genuinely hope there's a boss in there as brutal as Ornstein and Smough to really test our resolve and help us grow stronger as a result.

Her recurring imagery act as an alphabet, combined in order to evoke feelings of grief, love, sorrow, ecstasy, mourning and exultation.

In addition to its practical function as a source of light, its use is also replete with symbolism: candles can stand for transience and death, illustrate biblical scenes and charge them with emotion, express feelings such as grief or melancholy, illuminate portrayals of science and the arts in the true sense of the word or subtly add an erotic layer to the scenes depicted.

Their deliberately scarred surfaces deliver an unvarnished sense of immediacy, of time marked rather than spent, and most effectively capture the idea of unmediated grief — what it looks like, what it feels like and most especially how it changes everything — suggesting that in such times we are all romantics, experiencing, as these artists did, human emotion in the natural world.