What are the losses that can shatter lives?

“While each type of traumatic loss creates unique issues for the bereaved individually, traumatic losses often share a common theme. Such losses challenge a survivor’s belief in their assumptive world —the underlying notion of a safe, predictable, and orderly world.”

-Dr. Richard Doka

We live in a world where anything can happen at any time. To seek some sense of predictability, of safety, we create our assumptive world- our expectations, our beliefs, and our hopes.

Trauma and grief can shatter that safety.

In the aftermath of these events, we recreate not only a new relationship with those who have died, but sometimes, we create new assumptions, new beliefs, and new hopes.

What the COVID-19 pandemic has taught us is that there is ongoing trauma and loss in the world regardless of whether people are losing, or have already lost, a loved one during it. You might be experiencing ongoing stress; uncontrollable losses and changes; an altered world and changed ways of life.

As grief counseling specialists our role is to help you explore your understanding of loss- what it means to you, how you learn to live with the loss and how to recreate patterns of safety and connection.

It is possible to hope again, to create meaning again, and to find connection again.

Reflections on grief and loss in light of the tragic shooting at the Covenant School in Nashville

A conversation with Dr. Joy Samuels and Rachel Sellers, who share thoughts and reflections around how our brain responds to loss and how we live after loss.

Team Members Who Work With Grief + Loss