Grief Recovery
Are you or someone you know suffering from loss?
Grief Recovery
Are you or someone you know suffering from loss?
If you’ve found yourself here there is a high probability that you, or someone you love is suffering from a broken heart.
Is it due to a death, divorce or another major loss? If so you might feel sad, distracted, or confused. You are not alone.
The Grief Recovery Method has been helping people feel better following a loss for 40 years. Below you can learn about our different Grief Recovery formats.
Grief Recovery® Program
The Grief Recovery® Program is an action-based, 7-week program that allows you to work through your grief on an individual basis. This reputable program, created by John W. James and Russell Friedman, has been used for more than 35 years to help grievers from all over the world.
What Is Grief?
Grief is the normal and natural reaction to significant emotional loss of any kind. While we can never compare losses, any list would include death and divorce as obvious painful losses. Other losses include retirement, moving, pet loss, financial and health issues, marriage, graduation, end of addictions, and unmet hopes, dreams, and expectations.
The range of emotions associated with grief varies. Grief is individual and unique. As every relationship is unique, so are the feelings and thoughts each person will have about the relationship that has been altered by the loss.
The Problem
Incomplete recovery from grief can have a lifelong negative impact on our capacity for happiness. Plus, most of the information passed on within our society about dealing with grief is not normal, natural, or helpful.
Grief is the emotional response to loss, but most of the information we have learned about dealing with loss is intellectual.
There are six myths that are typically associated with grief: don’t feel bad, replace the loss, grieve alone, time heals all wounds, keep busy, be strong for others.
These myths are unhelpful and create internalized messages the prevent us from experiencing pain and loss. Over time, the emotions are compounded leaving us feeling deep despair and sadness. Debunking these myths is essential in the healing process.
The Solution
Recovery from loss is accomplished by discovering and completing all of the undelivered communications that accrue in relationships.
Completion of pain caused by loss is what allows us to “let go” and “move forward.” It is almost impossible to move forward without first taking a series of actions that lead to completion.
What is unique about this program?
The Grief Recovery Method® is an action-based program to not only verbalize your feelings, but to also help you complete the pain associated with those feelings. It is not time that heals our wounds, it is the actions we take within time that does.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is the GRM program evidence-based?
The official statement adopted by the research team on the program is:
“The GRM program is an evidence-informed, practice-based program that has been shown to effectively influence components of grief and grief recovery.”
Here are some helpful definitions:
• Evidence-informed – the GRM program combines person-centered values with several evidence-based practices that are supported by educational research and have been shown to be effective. These evidence-based practices are grounded in behavioral theory, group cohesiveness, meaning-making, and prolonged exposure therapy.
• Practice-based: The GRM program was exclusively developed by grievers FOR grievers based on over 40 years of firsthand experience. The program has been implemented across the globe in 22 unique countries and translated in more than 15 different languages.
• Evidence-based: The GRM program has been shown to effectively influence components of grief and grief recovery through data that has been collected and analyzed from phases 1-3 of the program research project. The components of grief and grief recovery that the program has been shown to effectively influence are grievers’ knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors of grief recovery.
How does the GRM program work?
Based on over 40 years of practice dealing with grief and working one on one with grievers, the GRM program helps reduce grief by teaching grievers new skills on how to cope and process grief (knowledge); how to confront old myths or unhelpful patterns of grieving (attitudes); how to examine the ways in which grief has impacted their life through detailed assignments and exercises (beliefs); and how to let go of pain from loss through the timely identification of apologies, forgiveness, and significant emotional statements, all within a helpful, supportive environment (behaviors of grief recovery).
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