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Occurs in the initial period after a loss. It almost always includes strong feelings of yearning, longing, and sadness along with anxiety, bitterness, anger, remorse, guilt, and/or shame. Thoughts are mostly focused on the person who died and it can be difficult to concentrate on anything else.
Acute Grief
This involves an intentional decision to let go of resentment and anger. The act that hurt or offended you might always be with you. But working on this can lessen that act's grip on you
What is forgiveness?
This type are unconsciously driven by the belief that power and control can create safety, assuage abandonment and secure love.
What is Fight?
I have no feet to dance, I have no eyes to see, I have no life to live or die, yet I do all three. What am I?
Fire
Why do skeletons hate parties?
They have no-body to dance with.
Occurs when something interferes with adaptation. When this happens, acute grief can persist for very long periods of time. A person with this type of grief feels intense emotional pain. They can’t stop feeling their loved one might somehow reappear and they don’t see a pathway forward. A future without their loved on seems forever dismal and unappealing…. Grief dominates their thoughts and feelings with no respite in sight
This is a response to loss. This can have different responses in the emotional, physical cognitive, behavioral, social, cultural, spiritual dimensions of life.
What is Grief?
These types are like machines with the switch stuck in the "on" position. They are obsessively and compulsively driven by the unconscious belief that perfection will make them safe and love-able.
What is Flight?
I have 13 hearts but no other organs. What am I?
A deck of Cards
What are two witches living together called?
Broommates
This type of grief is not openly acknowledged or publicly supported through mourning practices or rituals because the experience is not valued or counted [by others] as a loss.
Disenfranchised Grief
True or False: Self care is something that you only do when you are stressed out
What is false?
This type seeks safety by merging with the wishes, needs, and demands of others. They act as if they believe that the price of admission to any relationship is the forfeiture of all their needs, rights, preferences, and beliefs.
What is Fawn?
With piercing force, I dole out fate Over bloodless victims, I proclaim my might I can eternally join with a single bite. What am I?
Dracula, or stapler.
What monster loves to dance?
The Boogieman!
This type of grief is the result of adaptation to the loss. When a person adapts to a loss grief is not over, Instead, thoughts, feelings, and behaviors related to their loss are put in ways that allow them to remember and honor the person who died. Grief finds a place in their life.
What is integrated Grief
A state of active, open attention on the present (thoughts, feelings, body sensations, things going on around us)
What is mindfulness?
This type is also known as the camouflage response, often triggers a survivor into hiding, isolating, and avoiding human contact.
What is Freeze?
I am different sizes, shapes and colors. Many can see my veins. I don't go inside. The trees are where I reside. If I fall to the ground, I will surely die. What am I.
A leaf
How do spiders communicate?
The world wide web!
What are the 5 stages of grief in order?
Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance.
There is no correct order.
Get them all Double points
This is a pervasive problem. It results from exposure to an incident or series of events that are emotionally disturbing or life-threatening with lasting adverse effects on the individual's functioning and mental, physical, social, emotional, or/or spiritual well-being.
Trauma
Match these qualities with the types of trauma personalities. Fight, flight, freeze, and Fawn. 3 words go into each category
Fairness, Know-How, Boundaries, Listening, Peace, Mindfulness, Perseverance, Leadership, Courage, Healthy Retreat, Poised Readiness, Compromise.
Fight - Boundaries, Courage, Leadership
Flight - Healthy Retreat, Know-How, Perseverence
Freeze - Mindfulness, Peace, Poised Readiness
Fawn - Fairness, Listening, Compromise
I protect, I stand tall, my purpose is to strike fear in all. What am I?
A scarecrow